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A meeting a day keeps the robots away (opens the original)
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It is not often that someone makes a prediction that strikes you as profoundly incorrect yet also quite useful. But so it was when Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman told the Financial Times that “white-collar work, where you’re sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person – most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months”. Gift articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
It’s worse than you think. Young people now have a distaste for effort (opens the original)
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Agatha Christie wrote the intricately plotted novel And Then There Were None because, she later explained, she wanted to attempt something really hard: “I had written this book because it was so difficult to do that the idea had fascinated me.” This human tendency – to push ourselves to do things we know will be difficult – might well help to explain our success as a species. So, at least, argued the mathematician and philosopher Jacob Bronowski in a wonderful 1973 documentary series called The
Automation is coming for the gig economy (opens the original)
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A safety net for people who have fallen out of the formal labour market is being dismantled. Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox This bodes poorly when gig platforms have indeed become a safety net for people who have fallen out of – or struggled to access – the formal labour market. Whether with a smile or a shudder, both the champions and the critics of the “gig economy” have often portrayed it as the future of work. But has it actually put workers on a fast track to bein
If you think your profession is dying, it could soon be gone (opens the original)
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Younger workers, foreseeing the fall of horse-drawn carriages, began to shun the job, creating expected obsolescence IT IS often easier to see the future coming than to predict how quickly it will arrive. In 1895, Thomas Edison said it was “only a question of time when the carriages and trucks in every larger city will be run with motors”. The following year, German engineer Gottlieb Daimler made the first motorised lorry. Yet, it would be another 20 years or so until commercial lorries became r
If you suspect your profession is dying, it’s already gone (opens the original)
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It is often easier to see the future coming than to predict how quickly it will arrive. In 1895, Thomas Edison said it was “only a question of time when the carriages and trucks in every larger city will be run with motors”. The following year, Gottlieb Daimler made the first motorised truck. Yet it would be another 20 years or so until commercial trucks became really widespread across America after the First World War. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
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