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The New Romantics in the Computer Age - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • What are the activities that we humans, driven by our deepest nature or by the realities of daily life, will simply insist be performed by other humans?Those tasks are mostly relational. Being in a position of authority or accountability. Being a caregiver. Being part of a team. Transactional jobs are declining but relational jobs are expanding.
  • Empathy becomes a more important workplace skill, the ability to sense what another human being is feeling or thinking.
  • The ability to function in a group also becomes more important
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  • combine technical knowledge with social awareness
  • I’m not sure we’re about to be overrun with waves of Byronic romantics, but we have been living through an unromantic period and there’s bound to be a correction. People eventually want their souls stirred, especially if the stuff regarded as soft and squishy turns out in a relational economy to be hard and practical.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Sep 15
     
    David Brooks on the "soft and squishy" attributes that are becoming important in combination with technical skills. September 2015
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