Future of Work

By Heather McGowan

articles about the future of work, social media, collaborative economy and higher education

Another Clinton-Trump divide: High-output America vs low-output America
brookings.edu - Mark Muro
Last week, as my colleague Sifan Liu and I were gnawing on some questions asked by Jim Tankersley of The Washington Post, we happened upon a revealing …
Employment
Apprenticeship programs are helping people move into future-proof jobs
Axios - Kaveh Waddell
In several midsize cities across the U.S., unusual software teams are programming apps and websites. In past lives, these workers delivered pizzas …
Long-form Journalism
Will Robots Change Human Relationships?
The Atlantic - Nicholas A. Christakis
For better and for worse, robots will alter humans’ capacity for altruism, love, and friendship. Fears about how robots might transform our lives have been a staple of science fiction for decades. In 1940s,
Self-Care
You can take UC Berkeley’s “Science of Happiness” class for exactly zero dollars
Well+Good - by Kells McPhillips
The nature of happiness is a subject great minds have been noodling over for centuries. Intellectual luminaries, like Plato, Edith Wharton, and …
The Future
Five Principles for Thinking Like a Futurist
educause.edu
Thinking about the future allows us to imagine what kind of future we want to live in and how we can get there. In 2018 we celebrated the fifty-year …
Business
4 Reasons Good Employees Lose Their Motivation
Harvard Business Review - Richard E. Clark and Bror Saxberg
Motivation — the willingness to get the job done by starting rather than procrastinating, persisting in the face of distractions, and investing enough mental effort to succeed — accounts for 40% of the
The Best Leaders Are Constant Learners
Harvard Business Review - Kenneth Mikkelsen and Harold Jarche
As Juan Manuel Fangio exited the chicane before the blind Tabac corner in the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix, he stomped on the brake. It was a counterintuitive reaction for a racing driver exiting a corner —
World Economic Forum
Finland, Switzerland and New Zealand lead the way at teaching skills for the future
weforum.org - Sean Fleming
Finland is the world leader at the provision of future skills education, according to the Worldwide Educating for the Future Index (WEFFI), which is …
Why middle-skilled workers are being frozen out of big US cities
weforum.org - Bloomberg
David Autor, a labor economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a record of attacking the biggest and most important issues. He has …
Employment
Women do the majority of jobs that could be lost to automation
Axios - Kaveh Waddell
The most visible faces in the predicted coming wave of job displacement belong to the likes of factory workers and truck drivers — primarily men …
Singularity
Just released: "Skills on the Move - Migrants in the Survey of Adult Skills"
oecd.org
Drawing on data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), this report reviews the differences in migrants’ characteristics and considers how they …
Media Industry
Are Robots Competing for Your Job?
The New Yorker - Jill Lepore
Probably, but don’t count yourself out. The robots are coming. Hide the WD-40. Lock up your nine-volt batteries. Build a booby trap out of giant magnets; dig a moat as deep as a grave. “Ever since a study
Robotic Process Automation
The World’s Most Valuable AI Companies, and What They’re Working On
singularityhub.com - Peter Rejcek
It recognizes our faces. It knows the videos we might like. And it can even, perhaps, recommend the best course of action to take to maximize our …
Liberal View
Gender, Class and Capitalism
counterpunch.org - Rob Urie
A half-century ago a capitalist coup was launched in the U.S. to shift power from labor and the liberation movements of the 1960s to the lords of …
Artificial Intelligence
Stanford professor: Don’t let artificial intelligence pick your employees
Fast Company - johnoswald
Algorithms aren’t sophisticated enough to make these strategic hiring decisions–yet. In 2014, Amazon launched a new recruitment algorithm to help it find the best job candidates. A year into the experiment,
5G
5G’s Potential, and Why Businesses Should Start Preparing for It
Harvard Business Review - Omar Abbosh and Larry Downes
A new Accenture survey of nearly 2,000 technology and business executives in 10 countries revealed deep uncertainty about next-generation mobile network technology, known as 5G. Few of those surveyed,
Opinion
A.I. Still Needs H.I. (Human Intelligence), for Now
The New York Times - By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
BANGALORE, India — Fifteen years ago I came to Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley, to do a documentary on outsourcing. One of our first stops was a company called 24/7 whose main business was answering
Want to discover (or re-discover) your sense of purpose at work? Here’s how
ted.com - Leah Weiss
Carolyn Figel For us to make the greatest impact at our jobs — and also feel the greatest satisfaction — we need to tap into work’s deeper meaning, …
It’s time to explode the myth of "McJobs"
Vox - Ruy Teixeira
On the left, there are two prominent worries about American jobs. One is that new jobs are terrible: Low-level service and retail positions, or “McJobs,” are replacing the middle-class occupations of past.
Singularity
There’s no such thing as a “tech person” in the age of AI
MIT Technology Review - Karen Hao
We need to stop perpetuating the false dichotomy between technology and the humanities. To do otherwise would be detrimental to society. When I was an …
Machine Learning
The Current State of Artificial Intelligence - Infographic
bigstep.com
Narrow Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term that defines any machine capable of performing human functions. The forms …
The Workplace
The distracted mind (How to increase your attention span)
Ladders - Thomas Oppong
Humans have a very limited reservoir of will and discipline. We spend half of our waking hours with wandering minds. Humans have a very limited …
Why being smart is not enough — the social skills and structures of tackling complexity
medium.com
Mieke van der BijlBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Nov 14, 2018 Imagine you are working for an organisation and you are invited to contribute to solving a …
These are the 8 major forces shaping the future of the global economy
weforum.org - Jeff Desjardins
The world is changing faster than ever before. With billions of people hyper-connected to each other in an unprecedented global network, it allows for …
What Quantum Physics Can Tell You About Your Identity
medium.com
R. David Dixon Jr.BlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Oct 11, 2017 Are we born the way we are, or do we get to decide? Quantum Physics helps point the way. I …
How the Spatial Web Will Transform Every Element of Our Careers
singularityhub.com - Peter H. Diamandis, MD
What is the future of work? Is our future one of ‘technological socialism’ (where technology is taking care of our needs)? Or is our future workplace …
Charting the path to success needs a human touch
afr.com
"Understanding all of those aspects, in terms of true leaders, is going to be really, really important, although it becomes even more complex. It …
Technology
Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3500 mixed reality headset for the factory
The Verge - Dieter Bohn
Designed to get work done I am in a tiny room in a basement somewhere in Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington headquarters, wearing an early version of the HoloLens 2 headset. In front of me is a very real
Mickey McManus, Author at Redshift EN
autodesk.com