The Future of the Professions
How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 23 September 2015
- ISBN 9780198713395
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 239x166x22 mm
- Weight 708 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The Future of the Professions predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century.
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This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century.
The Future of the Professions explains how 'increasingly capable systems' - from telepresence to artificial intelligence - will bring fundamental change in the way that the 'practical expertise' of specialists is made available in society.
The authors challenge the 'grand bargain' - the arrangement that grants various monopolies to today's professionals. They argue that our current professions are antiquated, opaque and no longer affordable, and that the expertise of the best is enjoyed only by a few. In their place, they propose six new models for producing and distributing expertise in society.
The book raises important practical and moral questions. In an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks, what are the prospects for employment, who should own and control online expertise, and what tasks should be reserved exclusively for people?
Based on the authors' in-depth research of more than ten professions, and illustrated by numerous examples from each, this is the first book to assess and question the relevance of the professions in the 21st century.
Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind's recent work, The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, is a fascinating and very thought-provoking book Jonathan Westover, Utah Valley University, Sociological Research Online
