Within the next 100 (really 40) years, many economists estimate that up to 2 billion with a b will be unemployed thanks to automation, robotics, and AI. While many of those jobs will be service/manual labor jobs, many will also be white collar, and many of those will be STEM jobs. For example, AI will likely be able to write software better than your average programmer. So you can future-proof yourself by becoming good at things computers are bad at: cross-disciplinary and critical thinking, communications and storytelling, and creativity—all things that LACs are very good at fostering. And if you are one of the 2 billion unemployed, LACs will have hopefully taught you how to spend your life, via exposure to the Humanities.
Also, in this same period, I think we’ll see a transformation in education. Only some schools (prestigious LACs and high-end universities) might have live professors teaching classes. You can easily see state systems going to a model where they use “best of” lectures, with one professor teaching every Intro to Psychology class remotely. Or students may “attend” classes using VR. I’d worry less about LACs and more about state and regional education.