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How Robots Will Make Our Work More Human

Automation is coming. It will improve your job.

By Anne Kim

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the idea of “work.” With face-to-face contact now risky, entire industries—like retail and food service—have been devastated, while the office as we know it, at least for the moment, is dead. Our interactions with customers and colleagues are muffled by face masks or mediated by the pixelated coldness of a computer screen. Work for many Americans is now alienating and isolated—assuming there’s a job at all.

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Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines
Strangely adorable plastic robot. Slightly sinister.

A Fireside Chat with Jamie Merisotis and Anne-Marie Slaughter 

October 7, 2020—A Nationswell event from the Education Track of the #BuildItBackBetter (#BiBB) campaign, in partnership with Lumina Foundation. Watch their conversation about human work, AI, and the work of the future.

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Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines: A Virtual Book Launch 

October 6, 2020—A virtual book launch with Lumina Foundation President and CEO Jamie Merisotis for his second book, Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines.

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  News & Media  

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‘Human Work’ Q&A with Jamie Merisotis

Scott Jaschik | October 13, 2020

Merisotis discusses his book on the nature of work—and preparing for that work with education and training.

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In Indiana, keeping good jobs means keeping ahead of the curve

Jamie Merisotis | October 12, 2020
Could Indiana’s greatest economic strengths be its greatest weakness?

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Developing and recognising talent in a fast-changing world

Nathan M. Greenfield | October 10, 2020
A year or so ago, while driving through upper New York State back to Canada, I heard on the radio that the local newspaper had laid off its part-time sports reporter – but had not stopped running stories about high school’s (American) football games.

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Why return to the ‘old normal’? Let’s come back stronger—together

Jamie Merisotis | October 10, 2020
Many of us haven’t been to the office, eaten in a restaurant, attended a play, concert, or sporting event, or perhaps even shopped in person since the COVID-19 crisis fully emerged in March. While we yearn to go back to normal, we should use this disruptive slowdown to burnish our civic square.