The Future of Work — Part One

How automation will force us to retrieve human competence

Douglas Rushkoff
Marker
Published in
5 min readSep 21, 2021

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We are not in a second industrial age. That may be the dream of those who really want to double down on the dehumanizing legacy of the past few hundred years of employment. But the emergence of digital technology, algorithms, and robots offers much more than an opportunity to further automate our businesses…

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Douglas Rushkoff
Marker
Writer for

Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm