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but what does your brain conjure if you're asked to picture work in the 21st century?

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We're not going to have a jobless recovery. We're going to have a jobless future.

It is time to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth about the public status of economics as an expert discipline: it has grown to be far more powerful as a tool of political rhetoric, blame avoidance and elite strategy than for the empirical representation of economic life.

So what if corporations more and more become short-lived enterprises? What would that mean?

In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery.

"Along with the rise of the connected consumer - a subject that has no shortage of consultants, writers and public speakers ready to tell your company what to do - shouldn't we also be thinking of the rise of empowered employee, the people in the most advantageous position today and tomorrow to fill those job shortages? "

"If you're a smart Ph.D from MIT, you'd never go to Wall Street now," one hedge fund executive told the magazine. "You'd go to Silicon Valley. There's at least a propsect for a huge gain. You'd have the potential to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. It looks like he has a lot more fun."