The Future of the Professions

In an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks
what are the prospects for employment? In an era when machines can
out-perform human beings at most tasks, what are the prospects for
employment, who should own and control online expertise, and what
tasks should be reserved exclusively for people? The Future of the
Professions predicts the decline of today's professions and
describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an
Internet 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 authors
Richard Susskind OBE (Author, speaker, and independent adviser) and
Daniel Susskind (Lecturer in Economics, Balliol College, University
of Oxford) explore these questions with Joshua Hordern (Associate
Professor of Christian Ethics, Oxford Healthcare Values
Partnership), Vili Lehdonvirta (Research Fellow, Oxford Internet
Institute) and Judy Wajcman (Anthony Giddens Professor of
Sociology, London School of Economics). Chaired by Kathryn Eccles
(Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute and Digital Humanities
Champion, Humanities Division, University of Oxford).