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In an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks, what are the prospects for employment, who should own and control online expertise, and what tasks should be reserved exclusively for people? The Future of the Professions predicts the decline of today’s professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet 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.
The authors Richard Susskind OBE (Author, speaker, and independent adviser) and Daniel Susskind (Lecturer in Economics, Balliol College, University of Oxford) will explore these questions with:
Joshua Hordern (Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership)
Vili Lehdonvirta (Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute)
Judy Wajcman (Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics)
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