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The future of the professions : how technology will transform the work of human experts / Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind.

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This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet 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 systems' - from telepresence to artificial intelligence - will bring fundamental change in the way that the 'practical expertise' of specialists is made available in society. 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 the best is enjoyed only by a few. In their place, they propose six new models for producing and distributing expertise in society.

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  • ISBN: 9780198713395
  • ISBN: 0198713398
  • Physical Description: xiv, 346 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1. Change: The grand bargain -- From the vanguard -- Patterns across the professions -- Part 2. Theory: Information and technology -- Production and distribution of knowledge -- Part 3. Implications: Objections and anxieties -- After the professions -- Conclusion : what future should we want?
Subject: Professional employees > Effect of technological innovations on.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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The Future of the Professions : How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
The Future of the Professions : How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
by Susskind, Richard; Susskind, Daniel
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The Future of the Professions : How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts

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, The End of Lawyers? (OUP, 2008) and Tomorrow's Lawyers (OUP, 2013), his work has been translated into more than 10 languages, and he has been invited to speak in over 40 countries. Daniel Susskind is a Lecturer in Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, where he teaches and researches, and 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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