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People Trust Machines to Do Human Jobs, but How Much? Think about a typical trip to the supermarket. After you buy your Greek yoghurt, pre-packaged baby spinach, blueberries and some almond milk for your morning smoothie, you wave your credit card and get on with your day. In that short shopping trip, you have placed …
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Automation and The Productivity Paradox When McDonald’s introduced Automated Ordering Stations at our local restaurant two years ago, a friendly young teenager stood beside the machines to explain to us how to use them. As I tapped in my order. I asked the young person what this innovation would mean for employees at McDonald’s like …
The World Economic Forum’s 8 Futures of Work: Lifelong Learning is the New Black Hot off the press, The World Economic Forum’s White Paper Eight Futures of Work: Scenarios and Their Implications is the first in a series by the WEF’s System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Education, Gender and Work. You can download …
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A Closer Look at Moore’s Law In 2015, the year that Back to the Future II was supposed to have taken place, many of us that grew up in the 1980s looked back to the promises of that film and asked, quite reasonably, ‘Hey, where’s my flying car?’ Despite some cosmetic and performance changes that …
Thrive in the 4th Industrial Revolution? Lessons from the Blue Layer (Photo by Katarzyna Urbanek on Unsplash) I have recently become obsessed with ocean stingers. But not just any ocean stingers – the focus of my passion is Blue Bottles and their extended family. I spend much of my life by the ocean (a recent change) and of …
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The Future of (un) Employment in the Machine Age Humans have speculated about the future of work for hundreds of years. In HG Wells’ The Time Machine, the hero travelled to a future in which automation had created a childlike leisure class, and a brutish working class who toiled in great industrial factories underground. Wells, …
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Finland Taking the Lead on Future Work Skills Finland’s educational system has consistently ranked near or at the top of the OECD’s PISA scale (a global measure of the test scores of 15-year old students). Recently, Finland updated its National Curriculum Framework. The Finnish National Board of Education (NBE) will continue its focus on traditional …
Tom Friedman: Later is not an Option Pulitzer Prize Winner and bestselling author Thomas Freidman was the featured keynote at the Innovation in the ‘Age of Accelerations’ symposium held on 26 April 2018 at the George Mason University Science and Technology Campus. In his provocation Tom speaks of three climate changes occurring simultaneously: Climate, Globalization and Technology. To …
To embody future work skills we have to counter our evolution When I embarked on the project of building the Fourth Industrial Revolution.org I had very little understanding of the 10 future work skills identified by the Institute for the Future in their seminal 2011 report ‘Future Work Skills 2020’. The journey has become somewhat …
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Three Billboards, Social Intelligence and Leadership The extraordinary film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri delivers a text book example of the power and complexity of humans and the value of Social Intelligence in leadership. A key character in the film Chief Willoughby (portrayed with devastating effect by Woody Harrelson) writes to his colleague Jason Dixon: …
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