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Stephen Downes

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Harvard Business Review "surveyed more than 600 business and IT decision makers from a wide number of industries around the world about how they see work evolving between now and 2040." The results are unsurprisingly conservative: they predict that machines will adapt to serve the way we work now. Despite this never having happened previously in history. They also predict that more jobs, not fewer, will be created. Perhaps, but how many of those will be McJobs, designed as make-work? They also suggest that "when everyone has fingertip access to information, work becomes more democratic." They don't mention that they will do everything in their power to prevent that. That's why employers (not employees, (as predicted in the paper) will turn to talent networks.

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