After several months of personal journey towards accepting that the coronavirus pandemic is real (see Jandrić 2020a, b), in early March, it dawned on me that the pandemic does not need only so-called essential workers. Self-quarantined after returning from abroad weeks before the Croatian government locked down the country, I immediately wrote an editorial for Postdigital Science and Education and argued that 'While doctors, nurses, politicians, food suppliers, and many other brave people self-sacrifice to support our daily survival, this editorial argues that academics have a unique opportunity, and a moral duty, to immediately start conducting in-depth studies of current events.' (Jandrić 2020c: 234) I had no idea how to even approach these studies, yet I had a strong feeling that something needed to be done urgently. So, I just did what I know best and issued calls for 3 different types of Covid-19-related material to be published in Postdigital Science and Education: short testimonies, longer commentary articles, and full-length original articles. I had no idea how much material I would receive, what this material would look like, and what I would do with this material. I just had a deep gut feeling that we are witnessing a unique time in human history, a once-in-a-lifetime event, that needs to be recorded as it unfolds. For better or for worse, I decided to follow that feeling. This general vision, without a clear idea of what I was doing, paved a bumpy road for the development of this collection. On 17 March 2020, I shared the Call for Testimonies on Postdigital Science and Education social network sites and I emailed it to the journal's mailing list. Based on my previous experience with similar calls, I expected to receive 10 to 15 contributions and produce a standard-length collective article aiming at postdigital dialogue (Jandrić et al. 2019) about the pandemic. Yet my call went 'viral', at least for academic standards, and a couple of weeks later, I had more than 50,000 words written by more than 80 authors. So how do I make sense of all that material? My dear friend and Associate Editor of Postdigital Science and Education, Sarah Hayes, came to my rescue. We first tried to make sense of the contributions using critical discourse

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Technological advancement is one of the main drivers of economic growth and development. It propels increased productivity, boosts per capita income, affects consumption patterns, and significantly alters the nature of work in both developed and developing countries. The issue of unemployment has traversed different historical epochs, with several scholars proffering solutions to the problem based on their conceptualisations of the problem's causes. In recent times, technological unemployment (TU) has assumed critical proportions of scholars looking at the issue from different perspectives, thereby offering divergent insights into its impact on job creation and destruction in the present and the prognosis of what may happen in the future. The post-pandemic period has brought about a phenomenal increase in the utilisation of e-learning and other technological devices for effective and efficient modes of teaching and learning. The effects of technology on employment have become apparent due to its attendant consequences: rising inequality, rising unemployment, the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, and increasing digital automation of manufacturing processes - the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). This chapter critically examines the changing patterns of education delivery before, during and after the pandemic, the 'work-less society' in the context of TU; the nexus between TU and skill mismatch, as well as TU and the future of higher education in post-pandemic Nigeria.