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| | | | Automation is coming. It will improve your job. | By Anne Kim The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the idea of “work.” With face-to-face contact now risky, entire industries—like retail and food service—have been devastated, while the office as we know it, at least for the moment, is dead. Our interactions with customers and colleagues are muffled by face masks or mediated by the pixelated coldness of a computer screen. Work for many Americans is now alienating and isolated—assuming there’s a job at all. | | Read More |
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| | | | | | | October 7, 2020—A Nationswell event from the Education Track of the #BuildItBackBetter (#BiBB) campaign, in partnership with Lumina Foundation. Watch their conversation about human work, AI, and the work of the future. | | | | Watch → |
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| | | October 6, 2020—A virtual book launch with Lumina Foundation President and CEO Jamie Merisotis for his second book, Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines. | | | | Watch → |
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| | | | | Scott Jaschik | October 13, 2020 Merisotis discusses his book on the nature of work—and preparing for that work with education and training. |
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| | Jamie Merisotis | October 12, 2020
Could Indiana’s greatest economic strengths be its greatest weakness? |
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| | | | Nathan M. Greenfield | October 10, 2020
A year or so ago, while driving through upper New York State back to Canada, I heard on the radio that the local newspaper had laid off its part-time sports reporter – but had not stopped running stories about high school’s (American) football games. |
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| | | Jamie Merisotis | October 10, 2020
Many of us haven’t been to the office, eaten in a restaurant, attended a play, concert, or sporting event, or perhaps even shopped in person since the COVID-19 crisis fully emerged in March. While we yearn to go back to normal, we should use this disruptive slowdown to burnish our civic square. |
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