Future of Work and Organisations

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

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Enterprise
Company of the Future | Winning the ’20s
bcg.com - Allison Bailey
But for companies to compete on learning, it is not enough to merely adopt AI, which alone can accelerate learning only in individual activities. As …
Cities
'The next era of human progress': what lies behind the global new cities epidemic?
The Guardian - Oliver Wainwright
The urge to build cities from scratch is not new – but this time they are being conceived by private multinational corporations as gilt-edged tax-exempt gated communities At 8.30 every morning, an announcement
Universal Basic Income
3 Practical Solutions to Offset Automation’s Impact on Work
singularityhub.com - Moran Cerf
In recent years, the media has sounded the alarm about mass job loss to automation and robotics—some studies predict that up to 50 percent of current …
Blockchain Workforce Update #2
medium.com - Andrew Spence
We don’t know what work will need to be done in 2030. However, the infrastructure of how we find work and workers needs to be significantly upgraded …
The new division of labor
deloitte.com
The advent of artificial intelligence calls for a rethinking not only of humanity’s relationship with machines, but of how we, as a society, define …
AR Will Spark the Next Big Tech Platform—Call It Mirrorworld
WIRED - Kevin Kelly
Every December, Adam Savage—star of the TV show MythBusters—releases a video reviewing his “favorite things” from the previous year. In 2018, one of …
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 Spence
In many ways the digital age hasn’t really caught up with the world of work. Powerful search engines can help find job postings instantaneously, but …
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
The internet has brought us some great benefits over the last 20 years or so. We can find football scores instantly, do our shopping by swiping …
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 Jeffries
From superintelligent puppet masters taking over the world, to fiery self-driving car crashes, to the coming age of killer machines, more and more …
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 …
The economics of artificial intelligence
mckinsey.com
With so many perspectives on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) flooding the business press, it’s becoming increasingly rare to find one …
The Work of the 21st Century
medium.com - umair haque
“So. What should we be working on, anyways?” It’s one of the first questions I get asked. My answer goes something like this. There are two kinds of …
Proof of Human Work
medium.com - Luke Shipley
DAO Definition: A DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation) is a distributed organisation that is often built on a blockchain technology. A DAO has …
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
The engineering and construction (E&C) sector is worth more than $10 trillion a year. And while its customers are increasingly sophisticated, it …
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 - Morgan Clendaniel
When humanity encounters a shiny new technology and senses its potential, we usually glibly assume that the world will instantaneously jump aboard and surf the resulting wave of change. Anyone who has
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 - 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 …
Trends
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. Discover Affectiva's …
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 - Luke Shipley
DAO Definition: A DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation) is a distributed organisation that is often built on a blockchain technology. A DAO has …