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The Future of the Professions

How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts

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The Future of the Professions

By: Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
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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 by only 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 outperform 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 10 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.

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©2015 Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
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Don't buy this book...

The basic premise of this book is that expertise (such as that offered by the authors) should be made freely available in what they term a "technology-based internet society". The logical extension of this is that the expertise they offer to sell you through the purchase of this book should be readily available online, and it is. Just search on technological unemployment and you will find it.

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Expertise for free?

I'm hope the Susskinds are sharing all their thoughts for free. I paid them for their 'sharing'.

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