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The Future of the Professions
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The Future of the Professions

How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts

Oxford UP, 2016 más...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Legal technology expert Richard Susskind OBE and his son, Oxford economics professor Daniel Susskind, offer a lucid discussion of how technology is transforming the professional disciplines. While some of their examples – such as Wikipedia or the Khan Academy – will be familiar, others are freshly intriguing. The Susskinds methodically discuss how the technological, social, economic, psychological, ethical and emotional aspects of the professions are changing under the impact of emerging technologies. getAbstract recommends their look ahead to anyone in a professional discipline and to anyone interested in how technology is changing society.

Take-Aways

  • Members of the professions – including law, medicine and the clergy – provide expert, knowledge-dense services.
  • Professionals are central to society, which rewards them with substantial earnings, respect and status.
  • Information technology changes how professionals function and self-organize.

About the Authors

Legal technology expert Richard Susskind OBE also wrote Tomorrow’s Lawyers. Daniel Susskind, an economics lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford, was a Kennedy scholar at Harvard.


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