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This is a presentation by Marshall Brain, founder of How Stuff Works. He's written more extensively on the subject in an essay called Robotic Nation, which I haven't read yet. I think Brain might be overestimating the ability of machine-vision and natural language processing to supplant human intelligence, but the general trend towards fewer and fewer jobs is real one that I've written about a lot lately.

The 30th ISPSO Annual Meeting will explore the Future of Work from a psychoanalytic perspective. How do we now understand what is 'work' in the light of globalization, networked communities, instant information, demographic, technological and climate change? The centre of gravity of global enterprise has shifted southwards, opening new markets and creating new wealth but the gulf has widened between those have employment and those who are unable to gain entry into the world of work. 'Unwork'; unpaid, insecure non-­‐ employment is the norm for millions; what are the implicationsof this?

A growing number of workers are becoming increasingly concerned about the future viability of their jobs (if they have them) and, in many cases, that of their professions.

By James H. Lee Jobs are disappearing, but there's still a future for work. An investment manager looks at how automation and information technology are changing the economic landscape and forcing workers to forge new career paths beyond outdated ideas about permanent employment.

The Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) is an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. The premise: while "modern" management is one of humankind's most important inventions, it is now a mature technology that must be reinvented for a new age. It's time to hack management.

In the 2011 inaugural MBO Partners Independent Workforce Index, a study of independent professionals in America, it is clear that the cataclysmic workforce shifts of the past decades have fueled a new kind of productivity, wealth and personal growth opportunity for American workers and companies.

In a wide-ranging discussion moderated by Peter Jackson, Chief Scientist for Thomson Reuters, MIT's Andrew McAfee and John Seely Brown [JSB] from the Deloitte Center for the Edge explored the impact of technology on the workspace and global workforce.

Business models will change dramatically Technology, globalisation, demographics and other factors will influence organisational structures and cultures. Our scenarios outline three future business models: Large corporates become mini-states and take on a more powerful role across society. Specialisation triggers the rise of collaborative networks. The environmental agenda forces fundamental changes to business strategy.

The Future of Work examines the challenges to conventional notions of work and organization brought on by new digital technologies and trends. As the velocity of change increases, institutions and individuals must adapt. Yet many structures, including those in education, government, business and the economy, often remain rooted in the past. The report captures the insights of the Nineteenth Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology, where business leaders, technologists, international politicians, academics and innovators explored how global structures and institutions are being confronted by the 21st century realities of distributed knowledge, crowdsourcing, open platforms and networked environments. The report shares the solutions these leaders proposed for preserving individual well-being and defining a future world of work that benefits everyone involved.

A dozen surprises about the future of work, Andy Hines

The Technology Horizons Program's research on the Future of Work comes at an exciting time for the intersection of work and technology. Technology has become integrated into virtually every aspect of work. And because we spend so much time working, work really is the place where we most directly feel the impact of developing technologies.

Ten years ago, Facebook didn't exist. Ten years before that, we didn't have the Web. So who knows what jobs will be born a decade from now? Though unemployment is at a 25‑year high, work will eventually return. But it won't look the same. No one is going to pay you just to show up.

A nonprofit research center that specializes in long-term forecasting recently released a report detailing the 10 key skills that will be relevant to the workforce of the future. What are they, and are our schools doing enough to instill them? What are the jobs of the future?

The work world of the next several decades will be significantly different from the work world of the last two decades in at least three key ways: * There will be a dramatic and rapid shift in the capabilities of technology that reduces the costs of coordinating activities and sharing ideas. * There will be a set of economic activities that is shifting away from the 20th-century industrial or manufacturing-based model and mass-consumer brands to a model based on knowledge and co-creation between consumers and suppliers. * There will be new patterns of demand for talent and skills in which many individuals, particularly those with higher levels of education, will have the leverage to create work arrangements that are more conducive to adult growth than were possible before.

Thanks to everyone who came to Podio HQ and kicked off the new year with a great meetup. Our guest speakers; Ingrid Haug, founder of Usable Machine and Claus Bindslev, owner of Bindslev Nextstep, gave a great insite into how work tools and organisations are changing towards the Future of Work.

In this paper will be discussed different types of scenarios and the aims for using scenarios. Normaly they are being used by organisations due to the need to anticipate processes, to support policy-making and to understand the complexities of relations. Such organisations can be private companies, R&D organisations and networks of organisations, or even by some public administration institutions.

After I wrote The Future Of Manufacturing Is In America, With Robots and 3D Printing, commenter and former TreeHugger writer Ruben disagreed, saying "robots are fantastically expensive and resource-intensive. Humans, on the other hand, can eat almost anything put in front of them." True, but humans also need bathroom and coffee breaks, and the occasional birthday cake.

Various items on the Future of Work

Employers need to radically change old working models, writes Alison Maitland, senior visiting fellow at Cass Business School. Rapid advances in communications technology, including social media, are shifting the balance of power in societies at many levels and enabling a revolution in when, where and how we work.

In our last blog (which you can see here), I hosted a guest blogger, Chris Ritchie, who wrote about how the job market is a major problem for people in their twenties and early thirties (whom I'll call "Echoes"), and got a spirited response from a number of readers.