{"id":51169,"date":"2015-07-17T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T21:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=51169"},"modified":"2015-07-17T17:39:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T21:39:18","slug":"beyond-automation-harvard-business-review-davenport-kirby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/07\/17\/beyond-automation-harvard-business-review-davenport-kirby\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Automation [Harvard Business Review; Davenport & Kirby]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beyond Automation<\/strong> <\/a>— from hbr.org by Thomas Davenport & Julia Kirby<\/p>\n

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

After hearing of a recent Oxford University study<\/a> on advancing automation and its potential to displace workers, Yuh-Mei Hutt, of Tallahassee, Florida, wrote, \u201cThe idea that half of today\u2019s jobs may vanish has changed my view of my children\u2019s future.\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>Hutt was reacting not only as a mother; she heads a business and occasionally blogs about emerging technologies. Familiar as she is with the upside of computerization, the downside looms large. \u201cHow will they compete against AI?\u201d she asked. \u201cHow will they compete against a much older and experienced workforce vying for even fewer positions?\u201d<\/p>\n

Suddenly, it seems, people in all walks of life are becoming very concerned about advancing automation. And they should be: Unless we find as many tasks to give humans as we find to take away from them, all the social and psychological ills of joblessness will grow, from economic recession to youth unemployment to individual crises of identity <\/span><\/strong>(*DC insert: See my footnote below).<\/em><\/span> That\u2019s especially true now that automation is coming to knowledge work, in the form of artificial intelligence. Knowledge work\u2014which we\u2019ll define loosely as work that is more mental than manual, involves consequential decision making, and has traditionally required a college education\u2014accounts for a large proportion of jobs in today\u2019s mature economies.<\/span> It is the high ground to which humanity has retreated as machines have taken over less cognitively challenging work. But in the very foreseeable future, as the Gartner analyst Nigel Rayner says, \u201cmany of the things executives do today will be automated.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\n* These are the types of concerns I was trying to get at when I asked the question:\u00a0<\/span> Which street do we care more about, Wall Street or Main Street? <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

If the we make decisions solely on the basis of the bottom lines and with an eye solely on shareholders, we could have some major issues to deal with. We must consider the effects of automation on Main Street, not just on Wall Street.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beyond Automation — from hbr.org by Thomas Davenport & Julia Kirby Excerpt (emphasis DSC): After hearing of a recent Oxford University study on advancing automation and its potential to displace workers, Yuh-Mei Hutt, of Tallahassee, Florida, wrote, \u201cThe idea that half of today\u2019s jobs may vanish has changed my view of my children\u2019s future.\u201d Hutt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,387,174,86,112,306,37,35,178,239,44,437,480,310,299,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-business","category-career-development","category-change","category-corporate-business-world","category-economics","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-new-business-models","category-pace-of-change","category-robotics","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-workplace","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51169"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51176,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51169\/revisions\/51176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}