Work of Art
“Business, Innovation and Art” Special Series Issue #2
By Esko Kilpi
Managing Director, Esko Kilpi Company
Published on NewCo Shift, Feb. 24, 2018
“… Art and craftsmanship may suggest a way of life that waned with the birth of industrial society, but this is misleading. The future of work may resemble the history of work, and this is because of our newest, most advanced technologies.”
“… Computers follow a logic that is very different from the machines of the industrial factory. Computers make things the same way an artist or a craftsman would do things.”
“… What is emerging leads to a flat marginal cost society, an economy without scale, a human-sized economy.
The biggest challenge for a worker in this new environment is to think like an artist, at the same time making good use of new technology.”
“… This is why learning needs to change: it is not first going through education and then finding corresponding work, but working first and then finding supporting, corresponding learning…”
“Contemporary research highlights the roles of emotion and empathy in organizations. The subjective influences of learning and culture are also well understood. These phenomena are more related to the ethical and aesthetic than the purely rational and quantifiable…”
Read more on NewCo Shift.
Past issues:
(BIA) Introduction
Coming up next:
(BIA Issue #3)
Arts and Design as Translational Mechanisms for Academic Entrepreneurship: The MetaLAB at Harvard Case Study
by Luca Simeonea, Giustina Secundo and Giovanni Schiuma
(BIA Issue #4)
The Hand and the Head
by Piero Formica
To be followed by:
Articles to be published in “Business, Innovation and Art” Special Issue in MDPI
