First Friday Book Synopsis
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
Alex Osborn (1888-1966) was founding partner of one of the most highly regarded advertising agencies, BBDO, and is credited with introducing the brainstorming process in his book, Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem-Solving, published in 1957. He recommended four “rules”: o Generate […].
The Horizons Tracker
JUNE 26, 2022
In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. At risk (kind of).
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The Horizons Tracker
JUNE 21, 2022
While the flurry of stories on the topic seems to have accelerated in recent years, especially since Frey and Osborne’s notorious 2013 study of the topic, the evidence to date is that robots generally haven’t been “taking our jobs” at all.
The Horizons Tracker
JULY 6, 2020
Despite minimal evidence of technological redundancies since the famous paper on the topic by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne in 2013, fears have barely abated in the intervening years.
The Horizons Tracker
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Not only have those breathless fears not come to pass but we’re actually in a period of historically low unemployment.
The Horizons Tracker
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market.
The Horizons Tracker
JULY 28, 2019
Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade.
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