Future of Work 244 Stories

The jobs of the future will start to look very different as automation and AI become more entrenched in the workplace. How can you make sure you are prepared for the future of work?

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Ethical Tech

1.5 million jobs in the UK are at “high risk” of being automated

by Charlotte Jee
2019-03-25T12:30:44-04:00

Future of Work

A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality

Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the first experiment that proves it.

by Emerging Technology from the arXiv
2019-03-12T04:00:00-04:00

Future of Work

There’s probably another planet in our solar system

Laying out two decades of evidence for the mysterious “Planet 9,” a team of astronomers predicts that if it exists, it’s likely to be discovered within the decade.

by Emerging Technology from the arXiv
2019-03-05T04:00:00-05:00

Future of Work

The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same

Complexity science explains why efforts to reject the mainstream merely result in a new conformity.

by Emerging Technology from the arXiv
2019-02-28T05:45:00-05:00

Future of Work

Steam-powered spacecraft could jump-start asteroid exploration

A centuries-old propulsion technology is making a comeback—in space

by Erin Winick
2019-02-27T13:42:00-05:00

Artificial Intelligence

10 of Bill Gates’s favorite books about technology

And how they helped him choose this year’s list of 10 breakthrough technologies

by Bill Gates
2019-02-27T07:05:00-05:00

Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates: How we’ll invent the future

The thinking behind this year’s list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies began with the plow.

by Bill Gates
2019-02-27T07:00:00-05:00

Artificial Intelligence

A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist

Creativity is, and always will be, a human endeavor.

by Sean Dorrance Kelly
2019-02-21T07:00:00-05:00

Future of Work

The first privately funded trip to the moon is about to launch

After failing to claim the Lunar X Prize (which, to be fair, everyone did), the Israeli firm SpaceIL could have a rover on lunar soil in a little over a month.

by Erin Winick
2019-02-20T13:45:00-05:00

A piggy-bank with a euro sign on it

Future of Work

Finland’s universal basic income trial made people happier—but not employed

by Charlotte Jee
2019-02-11T08:00:40-05:00

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