Future of Work and Organisations

Including people management, technology, demographics, workplace and rethinking organisations - all with an added dose of randomness.

The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase
usv.com - dani.grant@usv.com
A common narrative in the Web 3.0 community is that we are in an infrastructure phase and the right thing to be working on right now is building out …
How Blockchain Can Transform The World of Work
medium.com
Andrew SpenceBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Sep 25 In many ways the digital age hasn’t really caught up with the world of work. Powerful search engines …
Blockchain and the Chief Human Resources Officer
glassbeadconsulting.com
Transforming the HR Function and the Market for Skills, Talent and Training The research paper, "Blockchain and the Chief Human Resources Officer" is …
What Has The Internet Ever Done for HR?
medium.com - Andrew Spence
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, …
Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras
The New York Times - By PAUL MOZUR
ZHENGZHOU, China — In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station. In Qingdao, a city famous for its German colonial
Human-Machine Work Teams
irvingwb.com - IWB
Will there be enough work in the future? What’s the likely impact of our continuing technology advances on jobs? How will they impact productivity? …
Why AI Will Bring an Explosion of New Jobs
hackernoon.com
Daniel JeffriesBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing May 23 AI terrifies a lot of people. From superintelligent puppet masters taking over the world, to fiery …
automation + capitalism = a perfect storm
jarche.com - Harold Jarche
I have often discussed the automation of work here and how we need to focus our development and education efforts on human competencies that cannot …
The 5 Types of Network Effects and How to Hack Them
hackernoon.com - Matt Ward
Society is built upon a story. The glue that holds humanity together is fiction, a creatively invented story for “the greater good.” Look at money. …
Preparing Learners for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
esheninger.blogspot.com
Do you like change? If you do, then living in the present is an exhilarating experience. For those who don’t, buckle up as we are only going to see …
Singularity
The economics of artificial intelligence
mckinsey.com
Rotman School of Management professor Ajay Agrawal explains how AI changes the cost of prediction and what this means for business. With so many …
The Work of the 21st Century
medium.com - umair haque
Three Levels of Work the World Needs Now “So. What should we be working on, anyways?” It’s one of the first questions I get asked. My answer goes …
Proof of Human Work
medium.com - Luke Shipley
Who art DAO? DAO Definition: A DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation) is a distributed organisation that is often built on a blockchain …
Winning the Race Against the Machine
medium.com - Christos Makridis
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, labels artificial intelligence (AI) an existential threat — citing it as the most likely cause of a third world war. And yet, …
Artificial intelligence: Construction technology’s next frontier
mckinsey.com - By Jose Luis Blanco, Steffen Fuchs, Matthew Parsons, and Maria Joao Ribeirinho
Engineering and construction is behind the curve in implementing artificial intelligence solutions. Based on extensive research, we survey …
How blockchain will disrupt Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook
TNW - Matt Ward
In the eyes of “experts,” when it comes to blockchain, there is often no middle ground — it will either be boom or bust, nothing in between. I for one have become a big proponent of blockchain technology,
We Need Breakthrough Business Models, Not Breakthrough Technology
Fast Company - By John Elkington and Richard Johnson
Technology doesn’t transform markets, business models do. When humanity encounters a shiny new technology and senses its potential, we usually glibly assume that the world will instantaneously jump aboard
Work of Art
medium.com - Esko Kilpi
Ancient societies took it for granted that skills would be handed down from generation to generation. Developing one’s talent as an artist or a …
Artists envisioned the future of work, and the results are pure fantasy
MIT Technology Review - by Erin Winick
From landfill recycler to skyscraper printer: predictions of how you will be employed in 2030. Jobs are shifting. There is no question about that. But …
AI Hits the Highway | The Future of Automotive AI
affectiva.com - Gabi Zijderveld
Discover Affectiva's insights into automotive AI trends and predictions to learn what’s up next for AI in the auto industry.
Blockchain platforms can enable good work
thersa.org - Andy Spence
Despite high-profile issues with digital work platforms, blockchain technology could help us ensure the next generation are fair, effective and …
Platforms, Blockchains, and the Evolution of Trust
medium.com - MIT IDE
By Irving Wladawsky-Berger “In primitive economies, people traded mostly with members of their village and community,” wrote David Brooks in a June, …
Proof of Human Work
hackernoon.com
Who art DAO? Luke ShipleyBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 21, 2018 DAO Definition: A DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation) is a distributed …
Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs
The Guardian - Andy Beckett
Work has ruled our lives for centuries, and it does so today more than ever. But a new generation of thinkers insists there is an alternative. By Andy Beckett Work is the master of the modern world. For
Biology, Blockchains and Quantum Physics
medium.com - Esko Kilpi
How to thrive in the Snapchat economy We inhabit a world of emergence, uncertainty and unforeseeable change. The greatest opportunities for advantage …
The Real Future of Work
POLITICO - By DANNY VINIK
Forget automation. The workplace is already cracking up in profound ways, and Washington is sorely behind on dealing with it. In 2013, Diana Borland and 129 of her colleagues filed into an auditorium the
Robots aren’t killing jobs fast enough—and we should be worried
Quartz
Never has there been more discussion of the disruption of work and, by some measures, never has there been less disruption. It could be the calm before the AI-aided storm. It could also be a sign of a
Five lessons from history on AI, automation, and employment
mckinsey.com - By Susan Lund and James Manyika
History tells us that in the long run, technology is a net creator of jobs. Is this time different? Technology adoption can, and often does, cause …
CBA preparing for ‘machine-to-machine economy’
computerworld.com.au - George Nott
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is gearing up for a future in which machines will have their own bank accounts and pay for replacement parts and …