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    • COVID-19 in 2021
    • COVID-19 in 2020
  • Technological Change
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    • Home
    • Books
    • Opinion Pieces
      • Generative AI
      • Generative AI
      • Future of Work
      • Future of the Humanities
      • Issues of the Day
      • COVID-19 in 2022 and 2023
      • COVID-19 in 2021
      • COVID-19 in 2020
    • Technological Change
    • Enhancement Capitalism!
  • Home
  • Books
  • Opinion Pieces
    • Generative AI
    • Generative AI
    • Future of Work
    • Future of the Humanities
    • Issues of the Day
    • COVID-19 in 2022 and 2023
    • COVID-19 in 2021
    • COVID-19 in 2020
  • Technological Change
  • Enhancement Capitalism!

Future of Work

By mimicking machines, are workers paving the way for their own obsolescence? - August 7, 2023

By mimicking machines, are workers paving the way for their own obsolescence? - August 7, 2023

By mimicking machines, are workers paving the way for their own obsolescence? - August 7, 2023

If your boss instructs you to mimic a machine beware. 

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How automation could turn doctors into Uber drivers - August 20, 2022

By mimicking machines, are workers paving the way for their own obsolescence? - August 7, 2023

By mimicking machines, are workers paving the way for their own obsolescence? - August 7, 2023

A piece for the ABC on a future automation could bring to medicine and people who work  in it.

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Exploiting confusion about digital tech as profitable business strategy - June 20, 2022

By mimicking machines, are workers paving the way for their own obsolescence? - August 7, 2023

Exploiting confusion about digital tech as profitable business strategy - June 20, 2022

A piece for the ABC that recounts an embarrassing and expensive error with digital tech and uses it to highlight a very profitable digital tech business model that exploits human cognitive frailty.

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‘Skimpflation’ and a future without human workers - July 7, 2022

Uber and Airbnb show two divergent paths for our future - March 10, 2019

Exploiting confusion about digital tech as profitable business strategy - June 20, 2022

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Uber and Airbnb show two divergent paths for our future - March 10, 2019

Uber and Airbnb show two divergent paths for our future - March 10, 2019

Uber and Airbnb show two divergent paths for our future - March 10, 2019

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Let’s Get Serious About What Older People Can Contribute - Jun 22, 2020

Uber and Airbnb show two divergent paths for our future - March 10, 2019

Uber and Airbnb show two divergent paths for our future - March 10, 2019

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Automating Segregation - Oct 28, 2019

The Social Solution to Automation - Mar 1, 2019

Automating Segregation - Oct 28, 2019

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Mind Over STEM - Aug 30, 2019

The Social Solution to Automation - Mar 1, 2019

Automating Segregation - Oct 28, 2019

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The Social Solution to Automation - Mar 1, 2019

The Social Solution to Automation - Mar 1, 2019

Don’t Trust Economists About the Future of Work - Sep 18, 2017

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Don’t Trust Economists About the Future of Work - Sep 18, 2017

Don’t Trust Economists About the Future of Work - Sep 18, 2017

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How Workers Can Get a Better Deal Out of Uber - Jul 13, 2016

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The Qualities Most Valued in Employees are Changing and Not How You Think - Oct 7, 2015

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Future of Work

By mimicking machines, are workers paving the way for their own obsolescence? - August 7, 2023

By mimicking machines, are workers paving the way for their own obsolescence? - August 7, 2023

By mimicking machines, are workers paving the way for their own obsolescence? - August 7, 2023

If your boss instructs you to mimic a machine beware. 

Read the full article

How automation could turn doctors into Uber drivers - August 20, 2022

By mimicking machines, are workers paving the way for their own obsolescence? - August 7, 2023

By mimicking machines, are workers paving the way for their own obsolescence? - August 7, 2023

A piece for the ABC on a future automation could bring to medicine and people who work  in it.

Read the full article

Exploiting confusion about digital tech as profitable business strategy - June 20, 2022

By mimicking machines, are workers paving the way for their own obsolescence? - August 7, 2023

Exploiting confusion about digital tech as profitable business strategy - June 20, 2022

A piece for the ABC that recounts an embarrassing and expensive error with digital tech and uses it to highlight a very profitable digital tech business model that exploits human cognitive frailty.

Read the full article

‘Skimpflation’ and a future without human workers - July 7, 2022

Uber and Airbnb show two divergent paths for our future - March 10, 2019

Exploiting confusion about digital tech as profitable business strategy - June 20, 2022

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Uber and Airbnb show two divergent paths for our future - March 10, 2019

Uber and Airbnb show two divergent paths for our future - March 10, 2019

Uber and Airbnb show two divergent paths for our future - March 10, 2019

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Let’s Get Serious About What Older People Can Contribute - Jun 22, 2020

Uber and Airbnb show two divergent paths for our future - March 10, 2019

Uber and Airbnb show two divergent paths for our future - March 10, 2019

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Automating Segregation - Oct 28, 2019

The Social Solution to Automation - Mar 1, 2019

Automating Segregation - Oct 28, 2019

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Mind Over STEM - Aug 30, 2019

The Social Solution to Automation - Mar 1, 2019

Automating Segregation - Oct 28, 2019

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The Social Solution to Automation - Mar 1, 2019

The Social Solution to Automation - Mar 1, 2019

Don’t Trust Economists About the Future of Work - Sep 18, 2017

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Don’t Trust Economists About the Future of Work - Sep 18, 2017

Don’t Trust Economists About the Future of Work - Sep 18, 2017

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How Workers Can Get a Better Deal Out of Uber - Jul 13, 2016

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The Qualities Most Valued in Employees are Changing and Not How You Think - Oct 7, 2015

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