The Future Workforce - Branch

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Radical Change

Based on the readings of Cornish, radical changemight reshape: • national security

Radical Change

Based on the readings of Cornish, radical changemight reshape: • national security • climate change

Radical Change

Based on the readings of Cornish, radical changemight reshape: • national security • climate change • genetics

Radical Change

Based on the readings of Cornish, radical changemight reshape: • national security • climate change • genetics • biotechnology

Radical Change

Based on the readings of Cornish, radical changemight reshape: • national security • climate change • genetics • biotechnology• robotics or superpower dynamics.

Radical Change

Based on the readings of Cornish, radical changemight also reshape: • the innovation economy

Radical Change

Based on the readings of Cornish, radical changemight also reshape: • the innovation economy• energy

Radical Change

Based on the readings of Cornish, radical changemight also reshape: • the innovation economy• energy• personal longevity

Radical Change

Based on the readings of Cornish, radical changemight also reshape: • the innovation economy• energy• personal longevity • and the next workforce

The Next Workforce

Jobs have become increasingly temporary. Theword career is as outdated as the wordtypewriter.

The Next Workforce

Companies outsource to save money.

The Next Workforce

The next workforce will mean more than justoutsourcing jobs…

The Next Workforce

The next workforce will mean more than justoutsourcing jobs…

it will mean crowdsourcing jobs

The Next Workforce

Chris Anderson calls this crowd acceleratedinnovation.

The Next Workforce

Chris Anderson calls this crowd acceleratedinnovation.

In the 70s, Toffler used the term prosumerism.

The Next Workforce

Chris Anderson calls this crowd acceleratedinnovation.

In the 70s, Toffler used the term prosumerism.

With crowd sourcing, you split a task intosmaller pieces and unleash it to millions ofpeople around the world.

Foldit uses the gaming crowd to cure diseases.

Wikipedia’s 13 million+ articles are maintained by crowds.

Threadless finds t-shirt designs to sell from submissions and voting by the crowd

9-5 jobs were created and defined by theindustrial age.

9-5 jobs were created and defined by theindustrial age.

As we move further and furtheraway from that model “the costs of integrationmay exceed the value of … superspecialization.”

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