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The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts

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This book predicts the decline of today’s professions and describes the people and systems if you want to replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will be able to 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 Future of the Professions explains how ‘more and more capable systems’ — from telepresence to artificial intelligence — will bring fundamental change in the way that the ‘practical expertise’ of specialists is made to be had in society.

The authors challenge the ‘grand bargain’ — the arrangement that grants more than a few monopolies to today’s professionals. They argue that our current professions are antiquated, opaque and no longer affordable, and that the expertise of their best is enjoyed only by a couple of. In their place, they propose six new models for producing and distributing expertise in society.

The book raises important practical and moral questions. In an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks, what are the prospects for employment, who must own and regulate online expertise, and what tasks must be reserved exclusively for people?

Based on the authors’ in-depth research of more than ten professions, and illustrated by a large number of examples from each and every, this is the first book to assess and question the relevance of the professions in the 21st century.

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