[A few interesting quotes](http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/businessdesk\/2013\/07\/should-we-fear-the-end-of-work.html) from [Cornell’s recent Employment and Technology roundtable](http:\/\/www.ilr.cornell.edu\/ICS\/InsightsAndConvenings\/EmploymentSustainabilityInitiative\/). As a new father this is even more interesting to me than it used to be…<\/p>\n
The likely false hope of everyone moving to “creative” jobs in the future:<\/p>\n
> If you’re talking 100 years, there’s no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is not far in the future — some of our children will be alive in 100 years. – [Hod Lipson](http:\/\/lipson.mae.cornell.edu\/)<\/p>\n
And the thought of what careers would even support 8 billion people all working:<\/p>\n
> I have a question for those of you here that are more optimistic about the future. What specifically do you think might be the future economic domains in which there might be large-scale employment? I’m not interested in the cases where there’s a cool new job that really, really smart people who read Wired magazine can do. What I am interested in are new occupations that hundreds of thousands of people could do, in game-changing ways like when the automobile industry once opened up. – [Gary Marcus](http:\/\/garymarcus.com\/bio\/bio.html)<\/p>\n
I’m with the skeptics–it’s hard to imagine a world where technology continues to advance and people still have jobs. The question is whether we can steer society more toward [The Culture](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Culture) and away from [Player Piano](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Player_Piano_(novel)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[A few interesting quotes](http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/businessdesk\/2013\/07\/should-we-fear-the-end-of-work.html) from [Cornell’s recent Employment and Technology roundtable](http:\/\/www.ilr.cornell.edu\/ICS\/InsightsAndConvenings\/EmploymentSustainabilityInitiative\/). As a new father this is even more interesting to me than it used to be… The likely false hope of everyone moving to “creative” jobs in the future: > If you’re talking 100 years, there’s no doubt in my mind that all jobs…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,383],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-work","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1kZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6276,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions\/6276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}