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)
平裝: 368 pages
Language: 英語
ISBN: 0198799071
EAN: 9780198799078
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 2.3 x 15.5 cm
Item Weight: 540 g
內容簡介
人工智能時代,未來職業朝什麼方嚮發展?
教師、醫生、律師這些行業會不會被顛覆?
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.
目錄
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?
作者簡介
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.
這本書的結構安排堪稱教科書級彆的典範。它不是簡單地羅列新技術,而是構建瞭一個邏輯嚴密的分析框架,從宏觀的社會經濟背景切入,逐步深入到具體行業和崗位的影響分析,最後落腳到個人如何進行適應性轉型。這種層層遞進的結構,極大地增強瞭閱讀的連貫性和邏輯性。每當感覺理解略有鬆動時,作者總能及時地用一個精心設計的過渡段或小結,將散落的知識點重新串聯起來,確保讀者始終跟隨著他的思路前行。尤其是在討論跨界協作和“T型人纔”培養的部分,作者提齣的模型具有極強的操作指導意義,感覺與其說是在閱讀一本理論書籍,不如說是在參與一場高水平的職業規劃研討會。這種清晰的脈絡和嚴謹的布局,保證瞭信息的有效傳遞和持久記憶。
評分這本書最令人稱道之處,在於其極強的時代前瞻性和對細微變革的捕捉能力。它沒有停留在對人工智能、大數據這些老生常談的詞匯上做錶麵文章,而是深入挖掘瞭這些技術如何滲透到那些傳統上被認為最“安全”的專業領域——比如法律谘詢、高端醫療診斷甚至創意産業的幕後流程。作者通過大量翔實的跨國研究數據和行業報告佐證,描繪齣瞭一幅未來工作圖景的精細草圖,很多細節的描述,讓我不禁驚嘆於作者信息的廣度和深度。這些洞察不僅僅停留在“什麼會改變”,更進一步探討瞭“為什麼會改變”以及“我們應該如何迴應”,這種深度挖掘的態度,使得整本書的含金量遠超一般性的趨勢預測文章。
評分初讀幾頁,我就被作者那種洞察入微的敘事方式深深吸引住瞭。他並沒有采用那種枯燥乏味的學術語言,而是像一位經驗豐富的朋友在娓娓道來,將那些宏大且復雜的未來趨勢,拆解成瞭一個個生動、貼近日常工作場景的案例。這種敘事上的親和力,極大地降低瞭理解門檻,使得原本可能讓普通讀者望而卻步的“技術變革”主題,變得平易近人。我特彆欣賞作者在闡述觀點時所展現齣的那種審慎和平衡,他既不盲目鼓吹技術的萬能,也不陷入悲觀的論調,而是始終保持著一種冷靜的觀察者視角,不斷引導讀者去思考“人”在技術浪潮中的角色定位。整個閱讀過程流暢而富有啓發性,很多地方都讓人忍不住停下來,反復咀嚼其中的深意,甚至開始反思自己當前的工作流程和技能樹構建方嚮。
評分這本書的封麵設計極具現代感,采用瞭深邃的藍色調,搭配簡潔的白色和亮眼的橙色字體,一眼就能抓住眼球。翻開扉頁,印刷質量非常高,紙張的質感厚實而光滑,墨水的著色均勻,讓人在閱讀時有一種愉悅的觸感。特彆是那些復雜的圖錶和數據可視化部分,色彩的區分度非常好,即便是初次接觸這些概念的讀者,也能清晰地辨識齣不同的信息層級。裝幀工藝也看得齣是下瞭功夫的,書脊牢固,即使經常翻閱也不會輕易散架,這對於一本需要反復查閱的專業書籍來說,無疑是一個巨大的加分項。整體來看,這本書從外到內都散發著一種專業且高品質的氣息,讓人在還未深入閱讀內容之前,就已經對其價值産生瞭初步的肯定和期待。這種對實體書的精心打磨,在如今這個電子書盛行的時代,顯得尤為珍貴,它不僅僅是一本書,更像是一件值得收藏的藝術品。
評分讀完全書,我最大的感受是,這本書提供瞭一種建設性的焦慮感,而不是純粹的恐慌感。它沒有販賣末世論,而是以一種非常務實、甚至帶有一絲樂觀主義的基調,告訴我們變革是不可逆轉的,但主動權依然掌握在我們手中。全書充滿瞭鼓勵探索和持續學習的積極信號,它像一麵鏡子,清晰地照齣瞭我們當前知識體係中的弱點,同時也指明瞭通往更高價值領域的新路徑。對於任何身處職業生涯十字路口的專業人士而言,這本書都是一份不可多得的“導航圖”,它激發瞭人們跳齣舒適區、主動擁抱不確定性的勇氣。這不僅僅是一本關於“職業的未來”的書,更是一部關於“如何保持終身學習和競爭力的行動指南”。
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