Future of Work
Ranking of the ten best cities in the world in which to work
The ranking is based on economic parameters and on quality of life: London, Singapore and Toronto steal the scene, with Milan lagging behind
Finding the right skills: how not to be replaced by a robot in the workplace
Nowadays, continuous training, soft skills and lifelong learning have become the norm. Here are a few tips on how to avoid artificial intelligence stealing half our jobs.
Stiglitz: “Inequality? The result of our choices and political and economic actions. But we can reverse our direction.”
The Nobel Prize for Economics winner Joseph Stiglitz reflects about the inequalities that impact society and the role of technology and training in overturning the rules of the game.
The conscientious robot will pay taxes
Technological innovation is centred on the two keywords transition and redistribution . Conversation with Marco Ratti, Architect and Lecturer at the MIT
Stiglitz: Work for everybody in the robot era? The West (for now) has no answer
Video interview with the Nobel Prize winner for Economics: The next five years? We must deal with the entry of artificial intelligence into production processes. And to ensure that everyone, not only the best, have dignified employment
The Green Economy? It will be the largest employer in the coming years
Engineers, mechatronics engineers, risk managers, along with installers, cooks, and construction workers: here is how environmental sustainability can create employment and generate value (not only for our health)
Wages and productivity: the great (and double) paradox of the new economy
Why do new technologies sometimes not stimulate productivity? And why is growing productivity not reflected in growing wages? Two paradoxes that economists have been puzzling out since the onset of computers
Andrea Garnero, OECD: Watch out for technophobia: the fear of innovation can be more harmful than innovation itself
Nothing could be worse than closing up like a clam and trying to stem technology because we find it intimidating. All this does is make us lose contact with the frontier of innovation, and turn away the best young talents
Stefano Micelli: Part humanist, part programmer – this is the craftsman of the future”
Interview with the author of Futuro Artigiano: Schools are essential: Sweden' secondary technical schools churn out 800,000 technicians per year, whereas in Italy this figure is at most 10,000. It is only by combining culture with technology that we can hope to restore substance to the world of work
Unemployment? An old concept
Sociologist Pierpaolo Donati, the author of "Quale lavoro-L'emergere di un'economia relazionale , has this to say: "You can not stop technology, but people are irreplaceable. Provided that..."