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Debunking Conventional Wisdom

Notes from the recent Digital Workplace Group's Nature of Work conference.

Stowe Boyd
Dec 11, 2021
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Debunking Conventional Wisdom
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I’ll start by apologizing for the disorder of my notes. The session was an interview, more or less, and these are some preparatory notes, not the actual transcript.

Fear of the future

Most people hate the future: the unknowability scares them, and that leads to hatred of even the idea of the future, and especially those that talk about it.

Kevin Kelly said

future-blindness is simply the inescapable affliction of our modern world.

The future of work is no exception.

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