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The Future of the Professions

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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In an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks what are the prospects for employment?
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? 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, 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 authors Richard Susskind OBE (Author, speaker, and independent adviser) and Daniel Susskind (Lecturer in Economics, Balliol College, University of Oxford) explore these questions with Joshua Hordern (Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership), Vili Lehdonvirta (Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute) and Judy Wajcman (Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics). Chaired by Kathryn Eccles (Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute and Digital Humanities Champion, Humanities Division, University of Oxford).

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
People
Richard Susskind
Daniel Susskind
Joshua Hordern
Vili Lehdonvirta
Judy Wajcman
Kahtryn Eccles
Keywords
digital
work
professions
technology
Employment
Internet society
healthcare
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 16/02/2016
Duration: 01:00:47

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