Field Guide to the Future of Work

Automation is mostly a charade — a ploy by firms to look sophisticated while humans continue to do grunt work behind the scenes

Urvashi Aneja ponders what a new machine age will mean for India’s 1.3 billion citizens. Will it fast track social mobility, or rather…

Nicolas Colin argues that the emergence of the digital economy has put consumers at the top of the food chain, and it is they who are now…

Mark Graham writes about the emergence of a planetary labour market, where new technologies have allowed more jobs to be outsourced from…

Calum Chace argues that automation will be a relentless job killer, but that it could also drastically reduce the cost of living for those…

Phoebe Moore contemplates a bleak future where workers find themselves at the tyranny of a pervasive surveillance system — one where…