ISBN:
9780198713395
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (363 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
DDC:
303.4834
Keywords:
Professional employees - Effect of technological innovations on
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Professional employees - Effect of technological innovations on
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Technology ; Social aspects
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Professions ; Forecasting
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Future of the Professions: How Technology will Transform the Work of Human Experts; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Boxes and Figure; Introduction; Our broad argument; The professions as one object of study; The structure of the book; Part I: Change; Chapter 1: The Grand Bargain; 1.1. Everyday conceptions; 1.2. The scope of the professions; 1.3. Historical context; 1.4. The bargain explained; 1.5. Theories of the professions; Alternative theories; Exclusivity and conspiracy; The influence of Karl Marx; Returning to the grand bargain
Description / Table of Contents:
1.6. Four central questions1.7. Disconcerting problems; 1.8. A new mindset; 1.9. Some common biases; Chapter 2: From the Vanguard; 2.1. Health; 2.2. Education; 2.3. Divinity; 2.4. Law; 2.5. Journalism; 2.6. Management consulting; 2.7. Tax and audit; 2.8. Architecture; Chapter 3: Patterns across the Professions; 3.1. An early challenge; 3.2. The end of an era; The move from bespoke service; The bypassed gatekeepers; Shift from reactive to proactive; The more-for-less challenge; 3.3. Transformation by technology; Automation; Innovation; 3.4. Emerging skills and competences
Description / Table of Contents:
Different ways of communicatingMastery of data; New relationships with technology; Diversification; 3.5. Professional work reconfigured; Routinization; Disintermediation and reintermediation; Decomposition; 3.6. New labour models; Labour arbitrage; Para-professionalization and delegation; Flexible self-employment; New specialists; Users; Machines; 3.7. More options for recipients; Online selection; Online self-help; Personalization and mass customization; Embedded knowledge; Online collaboration; Realization of latent demand; 3.8. Preoccupations of professional firms; Liberalization
Description / Table of Contents:
GlobalizationSpecialization; New business models; Fewer partnerships and consolidation; 3.9. Demystification; Part II: Theory; Chapter 4: Information and Technology; 4.1. Information substructure; 4.2. Pre-print and print-based communities; 4.3. Technology-based Internet society; 4.4. Future impact; 4.5. Exponential growth in information technology; 4.6. Increasingly capable machines; Big Data; IBM's Watson; Robotics; Affective computing; 4.7. Increasingly pervasive devices; 4.8. Increasingly connected humans; 4.9. A fifty-year overview; Chapter 5: Production and Distribution of Knowledge
Description / Table of Contents:
5.1. The economic characteristics of knowledge5.2. Knowledge and the professions; 5.3. The evolution of professional work; 5.4. The drive towards externalization; 5.5. The liberation of expertise: from craft to commons?; 5.6. The decomposition of professional work; 5.7. Production and distribution of expertise: seven models; The traditional model; The networked experts model; The para-professional model; The knowledge engineering model; The communities of experience model; The embedded knowledge model; The machine-generated model; Part III: Implications; Chapter 6: Objections and Anxieties
Description / Table of Contents:
6.1. Trust, reliability, quasi-trust
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