The future of the professions : how technology will transform the work of human experts / Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind.
Susskind, Richard E., author.; Susskind, Daniel, author.
2015
HD8038.A1 S98 2015 (Mapit)
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Title The future of the professions : how technology will transform the work of human experts / Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind.
Author Susskind, Richard E., author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780198713395 (hardcover)
0198713398 (hardcover)
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language English
Description xiv, 346 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Call Number HD8038.A1 S98 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.4834
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335) and index.
Added Author Susskind, Daniel, author.
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Part 1. Change: The grand bargain
From the vanguard
Patterns across the professions
Part 2. Theory: Information and technology
Production and distribution of knowledge
Part 3. Implications: Objections and anxieties
After the professions
Conclusion : what future should we want?

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