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Robots are going to take our jobs; or those jobs will be outsourced to countries on the other side of the world; or we’ll all be freelancing, doing multiple projects at once rather than a nine-to-five job. This isn’t fear mongering. It is our new reality described by Jan Owen, CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians, at the Old School/New School conference on education and architecture, held in Melbourne on 18 May.
Automation, Globalisation and Flexible Working are three key global drivers that will shape our economic and social world, and, indeed, already are. None of these influences are necessarily bad, though they certainly will be for future generations if we aren’t adequately prepared for this volatile, complex, ambiguous and uncertain world.
