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The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition

The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition

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The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition Paperback - 2022

by Oxford University Press

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  • Title The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition
  • Author Oxford University Press
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 592
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Publication date 2022-06-23
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # OTF-S-9780198841890
  • ISBN 9780198841890 / 0198841892
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.72 x 5.08 x 1.49 in (19.61 x 12.90 x 3.78 cm)
  • Category Technology & Industrial Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Computers and civilization, Professions
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2022933853
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.483
  • Quantity available 120

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Reader reviews for The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition

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This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced 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 technologies - from telepresence to artificial intelligence - will place the 'practical expertise' of the finest specialists at the fingertips of everyone, often at no or low cost and without face-to-face interaction.

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 their best is enjoyed only by a few. In their place, they propose five new models for producing and distributing expertise in society.

The book raises profound policy issues, not least about employment (they envisage a new generation of 'open-collared workers') and about control over online expertise (they warn of new 'gatekeepers') - in an era when machines become more capable than human beings at most tasks.

With a new preface exploring recent critical developments, this updated edition builds on the authors' groundbreaking research into more than a dozen professions. Illustrated with numerous examples from each, this is the first book to assess and question the relevance of the professions in the 21st century.

About the author

Professor Richard Susskind OBE is an author, speaker, and independent adviser to international professional firms and national governments. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law, IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England, and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute. His numerous books include the best-sellers ^iThe End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the nature of legal services (OUP, 2008) and Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future (OUP, 2013). His work has been translated into more than 10 languages, and he has been invited to speak in over 40 countries. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford.

Daniel Susskind is a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, from where he has two degrees in economics. Previously, he worked for the British Government - in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, in the Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street, and as a Senior Policy Adviser at the Cabinet Office. He was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University.

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