A world without work, but with citizen development

For the last few months, I have found myself in the world of work, project, automation, IT, AI, Citizen Development and technology. I think the effects of technology on the world of work are going to be profound. Hence “A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond”.

Where is automation taking us?

I already read “The Glass Cage: Where Automation is Taking Us”. In short, it is dumping us down, and if we don’t watch it, we will lose our soul to machines (and the companies that own those machines).

Citizen development

The question I asked after reading that book was whether citizen development is giving back control to the individual and allows individuals to express themselves or will it dumb down the users and will citizen development become an efficiency tool?

Abstraction of all technologies

I have come to the conclusion that Citizen Development might become the saving grace we need. Through enablement, it will give people full control back of their job, will help them to achieve mastery. Particularly when the abstraction of other technologies such as genetics, synthetic biology, robotics, 3D printing, material science, AI, etc. (there is a long list) will give people in work a full set of tools to express…