Beyond automation : strategies for remaining gainfully employed in an era of very smart machines / Thomas H. Davenport, Julia Kirby

In the very foreseeable future, as the Gartner analyst Nigel Rayner says, many of the things executives do today will be automated. Instead of seeing work as a zero-sum game with machines taking an ever greater share, one might see growing possibilities for employment. The threat of automation could be reframed as an opportunity for augmentation. Knowledge workers will come to see smart machines as partners and collaborators in creative problem solving. There will always be jobs for people who are capable of more big-picture thinking and a higher level of abstraction than computers are. A lot of brain work cannot be codified. When computers make decisions, there will always be a need for people who can step in and save us from their worst tendencies. It's still true that behind every great machine is a person.

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