The Future of (Your) Work - Singularity University Global Summit 2016

The Future of (Your) Work
Gary A. Bolles
Partner, Charrette LLC
Co-founder, eParachute.com
SoCap - Social Capital Markets
US Broadband Coalition
DGREE.org - The Future of Higher Education
Closing the Gap: Solutions for an Inclusive Economy
People Centered Internet

It was the best of times.
It was the worst of times.

the new arms race.
Courtesy of Adafruit

how can we thrive in disruptive times?

the three boxes of life.
education work leisure

● Agriculture, Agriculture Operations,
and Related Sciences
● Architecture and Related Services
● Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and
Group Studies
● Aviation
● Biological and Biomedical Sciences
● Business, Management, Marketing,
and Related Support Services
● Communication, Journalism, and
Related Programs
● Communications
Technologies/technicians and
Support Services
● Computer and Information Sciences
and Support Services
● Construction Trades
● Education
● Engineering Technologies and
Engineering-Related Fields
● Engineering
● English Language and
Literature/letters
● Family and Consumer
Sciences/human Sciences
● Foreign Languages, Literatures, and
Linguistics
● Health Professions and Related
Programs
● History
● Homeland Security, Law
Enforcement, Firefighting
● Human Services
● Legal Professions and Studies
● Liberal Arts and Sciences Studies
and Humanities
● Library Science
● Mathematics and Statistics
● Mechanic and Repair
Technologies/technicians
● Military Technologies and Applied
Sciences
● Multi/interdisciplinary Studies
● Natural Resources and Conservation
● Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and
Fitness Studies
● Personal and Culinary Services
● Philosophy and Religious Studies
● Physical Sciences
● Precision Production
● Psychology
● Science Technologies/technicians
● Social Sciences
● Theology and Religious Vocations
● Transportation and Materials
Moving
● Visual and Performing Arts

intuitiveanalytic
repetitive
unique
problems
& tasks
transferable
skills

What’s most important today?
know do

...to a lifelong model.
nano-learning

we’re not playing by the same rules.

industries are becoming unbundled.

music.
newspapers.
magazines.
books.
videos.
transportation.
energy.
manufacturing.
medicine.
higher education.
healthcare.
financial services.

how do exponentials affect these industries?

exponentials evaporate the middle.

1.design policies for an unbundled world.

early education for transferable skills.
unbundle degrees.
unbundle student loans.
unbundle benefits.
unbundle business loans.

2. change the purpose
of the organization
to purpose.

shareholders.
customers.
employees.
community.
planet.

lifelong learning.
self-inventory.
lean career goals.
a portfolio of work.
lifelong leisure.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way –
in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its
noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil,
in the superlative degree of comparison only.

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