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The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts Updated edition isbn 9780198841890

The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts


ISBN13: 9780198799078
New Edition ISBN: 9780198841890
Published: February 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2015)
Price: Out of print
Hardback edition out of print, ISBN13 9780198713395



A Financial Times Book of the Year 2016

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced 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.

Beyond the Professions explains how increasingly capable technologies - from telepresence to artificial intelligence - will place the 'practical expertise' of the finest specialists at the fingertips of everyone, often at no or low cost and without face-to-face interaction.

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 their best is enjoyed only by a few. In their place, they propose five new models for producing and distributing expertise in society.

The book raises profound policy issues, not least about employment (they envisage a new generation of 'open-collared workers') and about control over online expertise (they warn of new 'gatekeepers') - in an era when machines become more capable than human beings at most tasks. Based on the authors' in-depth research of more than a dozen professions, and illustrated by numerous examples from each, this is the first book to assess and question the future of the professions in the 21st century.

Subjects:
General Interest, Careers and Professional Development
Contents:
Introduction

PART ONE: CHANGE
1. The Grand Bargain
2. From the Vanguard
3. Transformative Trends

PART TWO: THEORY
4. Information Technology
5. From Craft to Commons?
6. Production and Distribution of Knowledge

PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS
7. Objections and Anxieties
8. Beyond the Professions