If Elon Musk Can Do It… While many 2o-something-year-olds are just finding their way in the world, young Elon Musk was already looking for ways to change it way back in 1995 (when he was that age). In a well-known 2015 discussion with Neil deGrasse Tyson for the physicist’s StarTalk Radio podcast, Musk lists the …
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Speaking with fellow billionaire and famous investor Warren Buffett, Gates said that if he were to drop out of college today there’s a limited chance he would end up in the computer industry, and likely not in developing operating software for companies. Responding to a question from a student, he named three areas that he …
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Future Now has been covering the “grand challenges” we face as a society in a series of articles, videos and graphics. We polled a panel of people from various fields about the vital issues they believe deserve more attention – you can browse 50 of those responses below, which we’ll continue to draw on throughout …
Don’t expect to see a human behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler by 2027. Or a set of human hands performing a delicate surgery by 2053. According to a new study from Oxford and Yale University researchers, those are the years artificial intelligence is slated to take over each of those tasks. And so it …
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For many, it seems the career ladder is dead, but what’s replacing it may be more daunting. A career web, or lattice, is a professional path where lateral moves are as important to a worker’s end goal as traditional promotions and upwards mobility. Click here to view original web page at www.bbc.com
The phrase “Future of Work,” has become a buzz word. (I found 48 million Google hits on the phrase.) There are are suddenly hundreds of conferences, books, and articles on the topic, covering everything from artificial intelligence to robotics to income inequality and contingent labor. The reason for the interest is simple: we are in an …
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First generation robots worked in factories. Second generation robots are preparing for white-collar professions. Thanks to rapid advances in robotics, automation and artificial intelligence, jobs are falling to machines left and right. And it’s not just blue-collar jobs that are being taken over by automation. It’s white-collar professions as well. According to an Oxford study, …
Where can your kids learn creativity and critical thinking? The answer is simpler than you think Our Impact Explore the latest strategic trends, research and analysis Every child begins their journey through life with an incredible potential: a creative mindset that approaches the world with curiosity, with questions, and […] Click here to view original …
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LinkedIn have tracked the supply and demand of 50,000 job skills. Here’s what they discovered Our Impact Explore the latest strategic trends, research and analysis Fifty years ago, work in developed countries was full of relative certainties. Aside from the periodic recession, most nations were at or near full […] Click here to view original …
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Manufacturing will fall. Retail will wobble. Automation will inch along but stay off the roads, for now. The rich will keep getting richer. And more and more of the country will be paid to take care of old people. That is the future of the labor market, according to […] Click here to view original …
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