I Went to Wales to Escape Work and AI. Instead, I Found the Man Who Showed Us a Bright Future for Both
I Went to Wales to Escape Work and AI. Instead, I Found the Man Who Showed Us a Bright Future for Both This wasn’t the weekend I’d planned!! My wife and I decided to take a weekend break in Wales just prior to Christmas. Time to get away from it all including AI and the Future […]
We’ve Seen This Before: When the Typewriter Destroyed the Career Ladder
Why one of history’s most famous “job creators” should be front of our mind when looking at AI as a Labour Technology Everyone celebrates the typewriter as a technology that created opportunities for women. By 1891, 75,000 women worked as professional typists – jobs that hadn’t existed 20 years earlier. But nobody talks about what […]
AI Is Labour Technology, Not Information Technology
Why This Distinction Changes Everything About Your Workforce Strategy For the past forty years, we’ve treated new technology as tools that make people more productive. We called this “Information Technology” because that’s what it was. Technology that processed information to help humans do their jobs. AI is different. AI doesn’t just process information faster. It […]
