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SUMMARY:POSTPONED | &quot\;The Future of the Professions&quot\; - Dr Danie
 l Susskind\, Balliol College\, Oxford
DTSTART:20170223T170000Z
DTEND:20170223T183000Z
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nIn their book "_The Future of the Professions: H
 ow Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts_":http://amzn.to/2j
 TAsri (OUP\, 2015) lawyer Richard Susskind and economist Daniel Susskind a
 rgue increasingly capable technologies - from telepresence to artificial i
 ntelligence - will fundamentally change in the way that the 'practical exp
 ertise' of specialists is made available in society. \n\nThe Susskinds cha
 llenge the time-honoured arrangement that grants various monopolies to tod
 ay's professionals. They argue that our current professions are antiquated
 \, opaque and no longer affordable\, and that the expertise of the best is
  enjoyed only by a few. In their place\, they propose six new models for p
 roducing and distributing expertise in society. \n\nThe book\, which is ba
 sed on the authors' research of more than ten professions\, raises interes
 ting practical and moral questions. In an era when machines can out-perfor
 m human beings at most tasks\, it asks what are the prospects for employme
 nt\, who should own and control online expertise\, and what tasks should b
 e reserved exclusively for people? \n\n*About the speaker*\n\nDaniel Sussk
 ind is is a Lecturer in Economics at Balliol College\, Oxford. 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 Ad
 viser at the Cabinet Office. He was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard Universit
 y.\n\n
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