If Tom Petty wrote a song about the the future workplace it might be called Freestyling,
“now I’m free…freestyling.”
In Average is Over, Tyler Cowen compares freestyle chess to how people might work in the future.
Freestyle chess is a type of chess where players use computers and other people to support their decisions in making chess moves. Freestyle chess teams are the most difficult to beat.
Collaborating with people and using tools to get the job done – sound familiar?
Complicated vs Complex Work
Harold Jarche writes frequently about how automation is replacing routine work in complicated environments. If tasks can be automated, they will be.
If humans are adding no value to tasks, they won’t be part of this work and we should expect the rate of automation to get even faster because we are in the second half of the chess board.
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