The future of the professions : how technology will transform the work of human experts
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- ISBN: 9780198713395
- ISBN: 0198713398
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Physical Description:
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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? |
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Subject: | Professional employees Effect of technological innovations on Technological innovations Social aspects |
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Table of Contents
The Future of the Professions : How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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List of Boxes and Figure | p. xv | |
Introduction | p. 1 | |
Part I | Change | |
1 | The Grand Bargain | p. 9 |
1.1 | Everyday conceptions | p. 10 |
1.2 | The scope of the professions | p. 13 |
1.3 | Historical context | p. 18 |
1.4 | The bargain explained | p. 21 |
1.5 | Theories of the professions | p. 23 |
1.6 | Four central questions | p. 31 |
1.7 | Disconcerting problems | p. 33 |
1.8 | A new mindset | p. 37 |
1.9 | Some common biases | p. 43 |
2 | From the Vanguard | p. 46 |
2.1 | Health | p. 46 |
2.2 | Education | p. 55 |
2.3 | Divinity | p. 61 |
2.4 | Law | p. 66 |
2.5 | Journalism | p. 71 |
2.6 | Management consulting | p. 78 |
2.7 | Tax and audit | p. 84 |
2.8 | Architecture | p. 94 |
3 | Patterns across the Professions | p. 101 |
3.1 | An early challenge | p. 103 |
3.2 | The end of an era | p. 104 |
3.3 | Transformation by technology | p. 109 |
3.4 | Emerging skills and competences | p. 114 |
3.5 | Professional work reconfigured | p. 119 |
3.6 | New labour models | p. 123 |
3.7 | More options for recipients | p. 128 |
3.8 | Preoccupations of professional firms | p. 134 |
3.9 | Demystification | p. 140 |
Part II | Theory | |
4 | Information and Technology | p. 145 |
4.1 | Information substructure | p. 145 |
4.2 | Pre-print and print-based communities | p. 147 |
4.3 | Technology-based Internet society | p. 150 |
4.4 | Future impact | p. 153 |
4.5 | Exponential growth in information technology | p. 155 |
4.6 | Increasingly capable machines | p. 159 |
4.7 | Increasingly pervasive devices | p. 172 |
4.8 | Increasingly connected humans | p. 175 |
4.9 | A fifty-year overview | p. 182 |
5 | Production and Distribution of Knowledge | p. 188 |
5.1 | The economic characteristics of knowledge | p. 189 |
5.2 | Knowledge and the professions | p. 193 |
5.3 | The evolution of professional work | p. 195 |
5.4 | The drive towards externalization | p. 202 |
5.5 | The liberation of expertise: from craft to commons? | p. 210 |
5.6 | The decomposition of professional work | p. 211 |
5.7 | Production and distribution of expertise: seven models | p. 215 |
Part III | Implications | |
6 | Objections and Anxieties | p. 231 |
6.1 | Trust, reliability, quasi-trust | p. 233 |
6.2 | The moral limits of markets | p. 239 |
6.3 | Lost craft | p. 244 |
6.4 | Personal interaction | p. 248 |
6.5 | Empathy | p. 251 |
6.6 | Good work | p. 254 |
6.7 | Becoming expert | p. 258 |
6.8 | No future roles | p. 263 |
6.9 | Three underlying mistakes | p. 267 |
7 | After the Professions | p. 270 |
7.1 | Increasingly capable, non-thinking machines | p. 272 |
7.2 | The need for human beings | p. 277 |
7.3 | Technological unemployment? | p. 284 |
7.4 | The impact of technology on professional work | p. 289 |
7.5 | The question of feasibility | p. 295 |
Conclusion: What Future Should We Want? | p. 303 | |
Bibliography | p. 309 | |
Index | p. 337 |