The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
Author:Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
Publisher: OUP Oxford; Reprint edition (2017/2/23)
平装: 368 pages
Language: 英语
ISBN: 0198799071
EAN: 9780198799078
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 2.3 x 15.5 cm
Item Weight: 540 g
内容简介
人工智能时代,未来职业朝什么方向发展?
教师、医生、律师这些行业会不会被颠覆?
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century.
The Future of the Professions explains how increasingly capable technologies - from telepresence to artificial intelligence - will place the 'practical expertise' of the finest specialists at the fingertips of everyone, often at no or low cost and without face-to-face interaction.
The authors challenge the 'grand bargain' - the arrangement that grants various monopolies to today's professionals. They argue that our current professions are antiquated, opaque and no longer affordable, and that the expertise of their best is enjoyed only by a few. In their place, they propose five new models for producing and distributing expertise in society.
The book raises profound policy issues, not least about employment (they envisage a new generation of 'open-collared workers') and about control over online expertise (they warn of new 'gatekeepers') - in an era when machines become more capable than human beings at most tasks.
Based on the authors' in-depth research of more than a dozen professions, and illustrated by numerous examples from each, this is the first book to assess and question the future of the professions in the 21st century.
目录
Preface
Introduction
PART I Change
1.The Grand Bargain
2.From the Vanguard
3.Patterns Across the Professions
PART II Theory
4.Information and Technology
5.Production and Distribution of Knowledge
Part III Implications
6.Objections and Anxieties
7.After the Professions
Conclusion: What Future Should We Want?
作者简介
Professor Richard Susskind OBE is an author, speaker, and independent adviser to international professional firms and national governments. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law, IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England, and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute. His numerous books include the best-sellers, The End of Lawyers? (OUP, 2008) and Tomorrow's Lawyers (OUP, 2013), his work has been translated into more than 10 languages, and he has been invited to speak in over 40 countries.
Daniel Susskind is a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, from where he has two degrees in economics. Previously, he worked for the British Government - in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, in the Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street, and as a Senior Policy Adviser at the Cabinet Office. He was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University.
初读几页,我就被作者那种洞察入微的叙事方式深深吸引住了。他并没有采用那种枯燥乏味的学术语言,而是像一位经验丰富的朋友在娓娓道来,将那些宏大且复杂的未来趋势,拆解成了一个个生动、贴近日常工作场景的案例。这种叙事上的亲和力,极大地降低了理解门槛,使得原本可能让普通读者望而却步的“技术变革”主题,变得平易近人。我特别欣赏作者在阐述观点时所展现出的那种审慎和平衡,他既不盲目鼓吹技术的万能,也不陷入悲观的论调,而是始终保持着一种冷静的观察者视角,不断引导读者去思考“人”在技术浪潮中的角色定位。整个阅读过程流畅而富有启发性,很多地方都让人忍不住停下来,反复咀嚼其中的深意,甚至开始反思自己当前的工作流程和技能树构建方向。
评分这本书的结构安排堪称教科书级别的典范。它不是简单地罗列新技术,而是构建了一个逻辑严密的分析框架,从宏观的社会经济背景切入,逐步深入到具体行业和岗位的影响分析,最后落脚到个人如何进行适应性转型。这种层层递进的结构,极大地增强了阅读的连贯性和逻辑性。每当感觉理解略有松动时,作者总能及时地用一个精心设计的过渡段或小结,将散落的知识点重新串联起来,确保读者始终跟随着他的思路前行。尤其是在讨论跨界协作和“T型人才”培养的部分,作者提出的模型具有极强的操作指导意义,感觉与其说是在阅读一本理论书籍,不如说是在参与一场高水平的职业规划研讨会。这种清晰的脉络和严谨的布局,保证了信息的有效传递和持久记忆。
评分这本书的封面设计极具现代感,采用了深邃的蓝色调,搭配简洁的白色和亮眼的橙色字体,一眼就能抓住眼球。翻开扉页,印刷质量非常高,纸张的质感厚实而光滑,墨水的着色均匀,让人在阅读时有一种愉悦的触感。特别是那些复杂的图表和数据可视化部分,色彩的区分度非常好,即便是初次接触这些概念的读者,也能清晰地辨识出不同的信息层级。装帧工艺也看得出是下了功夫的,书脊牢固,即使经常翻阅也不会轻易散架,这对于一本需要反复查阅的专业书籍来说,无疑是一个巨大的加分项。整体来看,这本书从外到内都散发着一种专业且高品质的气息,让人在还未深入阅读内容之前,就已经对其价值产生了初步的肯定和期待。这种对实体书的精心打磨,在如今这个电子书盛行的时代,显得尤为珍贵,它不仅仅是一本书,更像是一件值得收藏的艺术品。
评分读完全书,我最大的感受是,这本书提供了一种建设性的焦虑感,而不是纯粹的恐慌感。它没有贩卖末世论,而是以一种非常务实、甚至带有一丝乐观主义的基调,告诉我们变革是不可逆转的,但主动权依然掌握在我们手中。全书充满了鼓励探索和持续学习的积极信号,它像一面镜子,清晰地照出了我们当前知识体系中的弱点,同时也指明了通往更高价值领域的新路径。对于任何身处职业生涯十字路口的专业人士而言,这本书都是一份不可多得的“导航图”,它激发了人们跳出舒适区、主动拥抱不确定性的勇气。这不仅仅是一本关于“职业的未来”的书,更是一部关于“如何保持终身学习和竞争力的行动指南”。
评分这本书最令人称道之处,在于其极强的时代前瞻性和对细微变革的捕捉能力。它没有停留在对人工智能、大数据这些老生常谈的词汇上做表面文章,而是深入挖掘了这些技术如何渗透到那些传统上被认为最“安全”的专业领域——比如法律咨询、高端医疗诊断甚至创意产业的幕后流程。作者通过大量翔实的跨国研究数据和行业报告佐证,描绘出了一幅未来工作图景的精细草图,很多细节的描述,让我不禁惊叹于作者信息的广度和深度。这些洞察不仅仅停留在“什么会改变”,更进一步探讨了“为什么会改变”以及“我们应该如何回应”,这种深度挖掘的态度,使得整本书的含金量远超一般性的趋势预测文章。
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