Comments on: Take This Job and Automate It by Julia Kirby and Thomas H. Davenport https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/take-this-job-and-automate-it-by-julia-kirby-and-thomas-h-davenport/ Thu, 30 Jun 2016 10:55:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 By: Paul Lefrere https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/take-this-job-and-automate-it-by-julia-kirby-and-thomas-h-davenport/#comment-58044 Thu, 30 Jun 2016 10:55:52 +0000 http://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=1255#comment-58044 This excellent article reminds me of the pioneering 1970s study COSERS. The difference is that today there are affordable ways not only to automate graduate-level jobs (tactical unemployment, one job at a time) but also to do without entire cohorts of fresh graduates (structural unemployment). Eg, in principle entrepreneurs can test their ideas, then scale the successful ones fast and cheaply, using bots and cloud services.

Classic reference: “What Can Be Automated?” (1980, MIT Press), The Computer Science and Engineering Research Study (COSERS). Available here: http://priorart.ip.com/IPCOM/000128748/

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