Today we will explore whether or not the expansion of personal technologies
have been an unquestioned benefit to our personal productivity.
Is your job safe - collaboration, automation, annihilation?
The world of work will be radically different in the future.
From hyper-surveillance of staff to digital nomadism to robots taking jobs—how, where and why we work is changing beyond all recognition.
This is the workforce of the future.
Technology is transforming the world of work beyond all recognition creating groundbreaking opportunities.
But it's also eroding the rights of workers.
Some even fear a dystopian jobless future.
But are these anxieties overblown? How we react to this brave new world of work today will shape societies for generations to come.
What are the forces shaping how people live and work and how power is wielded in the modern age?
NOW AND NEXT reveals the pressures, the plans and the likely tipping points for enduring global change.
Understand what is really transforming the world today - and discover what may lie in store tomorrow.
There is no secret that pulling together a collaborative and productive team could be a challenging mission.
In fact ... it's becoming harder and harder to increase overall team performance.
And as you can guess, low productivity negatively impacts companies in terms of revenue, employee engagement,
work quality, and more. But the good news is that businesses can influence and revamp their productivity in many ways.
For instance, they can do it with the help of technology.
Metaphorically, it pays to reimagine and reshape our environments in ways that make healthy habits a downhill rather than an uphill climb.
In the workplace, individual employees can play a role in cocreating positive technological environments.
But, ultimately, leaders of organizations should play an active role in spearheading such design efforts
and taking an evidence-based approach to learning what works, and continually improving on it.
Interactive technologies will be central to engaging people at work and enhancing their creativity and productivity.
AI will improve the level of work people do by automating more mundane, administrative tasks.
But none of this works without providing the training for employees to acquire new digital skills.
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This 2014 article is about a 2002 movie, and now we're in 2024.
Have our views of algorithm-driven technology have changed and/or stayed the same over the decades?
The impact of AI on the future of work should be framed in terms of tasks, not jobs, automated by AI.
AI substitutes some tasks, complements others, and creates new tasks.
How this complex interplay of substitution, complementarity, and creation rebundles tasks into existing
or new jobs remains uncertain.
For this, we must take account of social and professional norms over and above technological feasibility.
(Learning Analytics) and data-enabled surveillance can begin as tools for social good but slide into morally
suspect territory, especially in immersive institutions with fiduciary responsibilities like (higher education institutions).
Institutional interests and student interests are not identical, and we should not assume they align.
continuing the thought from the previous session,
how does an increase in personal productivity translate to an increase in organizational productivity?
how have advances like social media tools altered the workplace?
what must be considered when introducing new technologies into an existing organizational environment?
what are the hazards of introducing new technologies to organization members who are resistant to them?
We at NPR Music leave a lot of variables out in the wild when we make Field Recordings.
That's especially true when we commission new music for the annual Make Music New York festival, as we have for three years.
Since we're not using a traditional stage and people are roaming around,
we don't know exactly what the performance will sound like (though we're lucky to work with fantastic engineering colleagues).
It's always held outdoors, and we can't be sure what the weather will be.
And in two of these three years - the first
and this one - we've flung the doors open and invited anyone who wanted to perform to come play alongside professionals. Pretty risky, right?
But what we've found, and what is so incredibly gratifying,
is that amazingly talented and generous people join in - this year, about 350 of them on the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library.
With a new piece by Sunny Jain of Red Baraat,
the beat and the heart were there already, but the spirit burst to life when all those musicians came out to play.
Credits: Producers: Mito Habe-Evans, Saidah Blount, Anastasia Tsioulcas; Audio Engineers: Kevin Wait, Josh Rogosin;
Videographers: Mito Habe-Evans, Colin Marshall, Christopher Parks, Maya Sharpe, A.J. Wilhelm, Marina Zarya;
Special Thanks: Make Music New York, Brooklyn Public Library, Red Baraat, Mark and Rachel Dibner of the Argus Fund, our many volunteers and all the participating musicians;
Executive Producer: Anya Grundmann