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• General

  • The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee* (Definitive summary of the way digital technology is transforming our economy by two MIT researchers.)
  • The Work of the Future - MIT Work of the Future Initiative * (An up-to-date (Fall 2019) report on automation, AI, and other trends shaping the workforce.)
  • Machine, Platform, Crowd by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
  • Video: Is Technology Killing Capitalism? (Interview with Eric Weinstein) - Institute for New Economic Thinking
  • Podcast: The Autonomous Economy (Interview with W. Brian Arthur) - The Exponential View with Azeem Azhar
  • Podcast: The Future of Work and Democracy in the Information Age (Interview with Matthew Taylor) - The Exponential View with Azeem Azhar
  • The Future of Work in America - McKinsey Global Institute
  • Breaking Smart by Venkatesh Rao
  • The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Primer on Artificial Intelligence by David Kelnar
  • Technology at Work: The Future is Not What it Used to Be - Oxford Martin School
  • Information Technology and the Changing Fabric of Organization
  • Big Data Methods: Leveraging Modern Data Analytic Techniques to Build Organizational Science
  • Working and Organizing in the Age of the Learning Algorithm
  • Positive Technology - Deloitte Insights

• Automation

  • Which Careers Will Be Automated? - 80,000 Hours* (A useful analysis of automation prospects from a nonprofit focused on high-impact careers.)
  • The Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford* (A book-length treatment of the threat and promise of automation from a noted futurist.)
  • Automation with intelligence - Deloitte Insights
  • Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets
  • The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?
  • Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Work
  • Virtual Reality: Catalyzing the Future of Work - Toptal Insights
  • The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr

• Fragmentation

  • No Task Left Behind? Examining the Nature of Fragmented Work* (Explanation of how digital technologies permit and encourage the fragmentation of work in space and time.)
  • The Sharing Economy: Why People Participate in Collaborative Consumption
  • No Workflow Can Ever Be Enough: How Crowdsourcing Workflows Constrain Complex Work
  • The Lure of the Virtual
  • Out of Sight, Out of Sync: Understanding Conflict in Distributed Teams
  • Firms, Crowds, and Innovation
  • Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities

• Collaboration

  • Cognitive Collaboration - Deloitte Insights* (A practically focused history — and defense — of human-AI collaboration.)
  • Collaborative Intelligence by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty* (A summary of how humans can help machines (training them on new data, explaining their decisions, and sustaining their functioning) and how machines can help humans (amplifying our cognitive abilities, interacting with customers and employees, and embodying our skills.)
  • Minds and Machines: The Art of Forecasting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Deloitte Insights
  • Video: Don’t Fear Intelligent Machines, Work With Them - Garry Kasparov TED Talk
  • Superminds: How Humans and Machines Can Work Together - Deloitte Insights
  • Human + Machine by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty
  • Algorithm aversion: People Erroneously Avoid Algorithms After Seeing Them Err

• People Analytics

  • Wearables in the Workplace by H. James Wilson

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