Companies have started collecting data about customers, this has led to a huge collection of data. Data science is a very lucrative field and has job prospects in every industry starting from aerospace to beauty and healthcare. Besides private sector a lot of government jobs are also available.
Some also comment that AI is the new future of data science. AI is already helping companies to make sense of this vast data, it might also start producing computational models on its own who knows! Whether it can endanger jobs of data scientist and analyst is still being debated.