Jobs of the future
“...men of speculation, whose trade it is not to do anything, but to observe everything; and who, upon that account, are often capable of combining together the powers of the most distant and dissimilar objects. In the progress of society, philosophy or speculation becomes, like every other employment, the principal or sole trade and occupation of a particular class of citizens. Like every other employment too, it is subdivided into a great number of different branches, each of which affords occupation to a peculiar tribe or class of philosophers; and this subdivision of employment in philosophy, as well as in every other business, improves dexterity, and saves time. Each individual becomes more expert in his own peculiar branch, more work is done upon the whole, and the quantity of science is considerably increased by it.”
Jobs of the Future: The Collide-oscope.
The prompter, the prototyper, the prober and the provocateur.
- They learn, think and thrive in the context of working with multiple perspectives and ultimate uncertainty 1.
- They subdivide and specialise, continuously collecting dots and connecting dots 2.
- They are always looking around to see what’s happening, curating collide-oscopes of interfaced situations 3.
- They persist in perpetual loop of oscillation, magnification, fragmentation, articulation, extraction and amplification at granular orders of magnitude 4.
- They craft culturematics: little culture making machines designed to test the world, discover meaning and unleash value 5.
Dialogic Education by Rupert Wegerif10.4324/9780203111222/dialogic-education-internet-age-rupert-wegerif]↩