An invigorating, thought-provoking, and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustainable careers in the near future.
Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It’s not only blue-collar jobs at stake. Millions of educated knowledge workers—writers, paralegals, assistants, medical technicians—are threatened by accelerating advances in artificial intelligence.
The industrial revolution shifted workers from farms to factories. In the first era of automation, machines relieved humans of manually exhausting work. Today, Era Two of automation continues to wash across the entire services-based economy that has replaced jobs in agriculture and manufacturing. Era Three, and the rise of AI, is dawning. Smart computers are demonstrating they are capable of making better decisions than humans. Brilliant technologies can now decide, learn, predict, and even comprehend much faster and more accurately than the human brain, and their progress is accelerating. Where will this leave lawyers, nurses, teachers, and editors?
In Only Humans Need Apply, Thomas Hayes Davenport and Julia Kirby reframe the conversation about automation, arguing that the future of increased productivity and business success isn’t either human or machine. It’s both. The key is augmentation, utilizing technology to help humans work better, smarter, and faster. Instead of viewing these machines as competitive interlopers, we can see them as partners and collaborators in creative problem solving as we move into the next era. The choice is ours.
Editorial Reviews
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A fine call to action in the face of uncertainty. (Financial Times)
The world the authors describe may be unsettling, but it is a world that we would all recognize and will likely live to see. (Wall Street Journal)
This badly needed and well-researched book makes a convincing and inspiring case that the challenges ahead could be a catalyst to help us achieve far more of our potential and, in the process, become much more human. It is a powerful call to action and provides a roadmap that we ignore at our peril. It’s not enough to read this book; we need to act on it, now! (John Hagel, Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge)
The winners in the analytics revolution won’t simply replace human decision-making, they will augment it. The essential guide to this management revolution is Davenport and Kirby’s remarkable new book. (Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor at MIT and co-author of The Second Machine Age)
Individual knowledge workers, corporate executives, and government leaders all need to read this book. Smart machines are going to change our work and our lives, and the sooner we begin to augment their capabilities, the more successful our economy will be. Davenport and Kirby are correct: people will augment these tools, rather than be automated by them. The sooner you learn about augmentation, the more successful you’ll be in the labor markets of the future. (Manoj Saxena, Former General Manager, IBM Watson)
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An invigorating, thought-provoking, and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustainable careers in the near future
Nearly half of all working Americans risk losing their jobs because of technology. It’s not only blue-collar jobs at stake. Millions of educated “knowledge” workers—journalists, lawyers, doctors, marketers—are threatened by accelerating advances in artificial intelligence.
The industrial revolution shifted workers from farms to factories. In the first era of automation, machines relieved humans of manually exhausting work. Today Era Two of automation continues to wash across the entire services-based economy, replacing jobs in agriculture and manufacturing. Now Era Three, the rise of “cognitive computing,” is dawning. Smart computers are demonstrating they are capable of making better decisions than humans. Brilliant technologies can now learn, predict, decide, and even comprehend much faster and more accurately than the human brain, and their progress is accelerating. Where will this leave financial advisors, scientists, teachers, and other professionals?
In Only Humans Need Apply, Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby reframe the conversation about automation, arguing that the future of increased productivity and business success isn’t either human or machine. It’s both. The key is augmentation, utilizing technology to help humans work better, smarter, and faster. Instead of viewing these machines as competitive interlopers, we must see them as partners and collaborators in creative problem solving as we move into the next era. The choice is ours.
当我读到这本书的最后一段时,我再次提醒了阿尔文托夫勒的第三波浪的一段经文:“21世纪的文盲不是那些不能读写的人,而是那些不能学习,不学习和重新学习“。认为政府将为目前没有可就业技能的人创造就业机会是天真的。他们必须准备自己,然后在人机交互中寻求机会。 最近波...
评分当我读到这本书的最后一段时,我再次提醒了阿尔文托夫勒的第三波浪的一段经文:“21世纪的文盲不是那些不能读写的人,而是那些不能学习,不学习和重新学习“。认为政府将为目前没有可就业技能的人创造就业机会是天真的。他们必须准备自己,然后在人机交互中寻求机会。 最近波...
评分当我读到这本书的最后一段时,我再次提醒了阿尔文托夫勒的第三波浪的一段经文:“21世纪的文盲不是那些不能读写的人,而是那些不能学习,不学习和重新学习“。认为政府将为目前没有可就业技能的人创造就业机会是天真的。他们必须准备自己,然后在人机交互中寻求机会。 最近波...
评分当我读到这本书的最后一段时,我再次提醒了阿尔文托夫勒的第三波浪的一段经文:“21世纪的文盲不是那些不能读写的人,而是那些不能学习,不学习和重新学习“。认为政府将为目前没有可就业技能的人创造就业机会是天真的。他们必须准备自己,然后在人机交互中寻求机会。 最近波...
评分当我读到这本书的最后一段时,我再次提醒了阿尔文托夫勒的第三波浪的一段经文:“21世纪的文盲不是那些不能读写的人,而是那些不能学习,不学习和重新学习“。认为政府将为目前没有可就业技能的人创造就业机会是天真的。他们必须准备自己,然后在人机交互中寻求机会。 最近波...
我得承认,这本书的阅读过程是相当“费脑筋”的。它没有提供一个清晰、简单的是非黑白。相反,作者将读者置于一个充满灰色地带的迷宫之中,让你不得不自己去寻找方向,去定义什么是对,什么是错。我特别喜欢这种不喂食给读者的做法,它激发了我内在的好奇心和批判性思维。在读完好几个章节后,我经常会放下书,一个人在房间里踱步思考那些人物行为背后的动机,以及作者试图通过这些故事影射的社会结构问题。这种主动参与式的阅读,远比被动接受信息来得有价值,它让这本书真正成为了一个思考的载体,而非仅仅是娱乐的工具。
评分这本书的结构设计简直像一座精密的钟表,每一个齿轮的咬合都恰到好处,共同推动着一个宏大叙事的运转。我不是那种会去关注章节编号或者时间线索的读者,但我能清晰地感受到那种内在的逻辑张力。作者在不同时间轴和不同视角之间跳转时,处理得极其平滑,没有那种生硬的剪辑感,反而营造出一种宿命般的宿醉感,让你觉得所有发生的一切都是必然的,只是你现在才被允许窥见全貌。特别是结尾部分,那种所有的线索最终汇集成一股洪流的感觉,带来的冲击力是排山倒海的,让人在合上书本后,仍能感受到那种回响。
评分从文学性的角度来看,这本书的贡献是不可磨灭的。它很大胆地尝试了一些在当代叙事中并不多见的修辞手法和句法结构,使得阅读过程充满了一种原始的、近乎未经修饰的力量感。它不迎合主流的阅读习惯,反而试图带领读者进入一个更深邃、更具挑战性的语言空间。读到某些段落时,你会感觉自己仿佛在攀爬一座陡峭的山壁,需要用尽全力才能抓住下一个立足点,但一旦站稳,眼前的风景又是如此的开阔和震撼。这绝对是一部需要被认真对待,并且值得被反复阅读和研究的文学作品,它的价值是经得起时间考验的。
评分与市面上那些热衷于构建庞大世界观的奇幻或科幻作品不同,这本书的魅力在于它对“日常”的解构与重塑。它将我们习以为常的环境和人际关系,用一种全新的、近乎异化的视角重新呈现出来。很多场景,本来是如此的熟悉,但经过作者的笔触一加工,立刻就散发出一种奇异的、令人不安的光芒。这种“陌生化”的处理,迫使我重新审视自己所处的现实世界,思考那些我们因为过于习惯而忽略了的细节和权力关系。它没有逃避,而是直面了我们日常生活中那些令人感到不适但又不得不接受的现实基础。
评分这本书,说实话,读起来就像是走进了一个被精心布置但又充满矛盾的剧场。作者对人物的刻画入木三分,每一个角色都不是扁平的符号,他们身上那种纠结、那种在道德边缘试探的挣扎,简直能让人感同身受。我尤其欣赏他叙事节奏的掌控力,那种时而疾风骤雨般的冲突爆发,时而又陷入漫长、令人窒息的沉思的切换,处理得极其老练。尤其是在描述那些关键转折点时,他总能巧妙地设置一个看似不经意的细节,却在后文引发连锁反应,让人不得不惊叹于其布局之深远。 这本书的语言风格是极其考究的,但绝不是那种故作高深的堆砌辞藻。它更像是一把锋利的手术刀,精准地切开现实的表皮,直抵人性最隐秘的内核。我常常在阅读时停下来,不是因为理解不了,而是因为某一个句子,那种独特的措辞方式,那种对特定情感的捕捉精度,让人忍不住要反复咀嚼。它不像一些畅销书那样追求速度和快感,而是更偏向于一种沉浸式的体验,需要读者投入足够的时间和心力去品味那些潜藏在文字背后的深层意涵。这种阅读体验是稀缺的,它挑战了我们对于“好故事”的传统期待。
评分1. Be a Step-Narrow first, have a source/grounding discipline 2. then pursue its intersection with your special passion--pioneer a new field
评分1. Be a Step-Narrow first, have a source/grounding discipline 2. then pursue its intersection with your special passion--pioneer a new field
评分太淺了 | 易被機器取代的工種: 需大量閱讀/數據的 不強調溝通和應變(審時度勢)的 | bureaucracy放慢automation | 文中說的所謂augmentation其實就是機器更大scale
评分太淺了 | 易被機器取代的工種: 需大量閱讀/數據的 不強調溝通和應變(審時度勢)的 | bureaucracy放慢automation | 文中說的所謂augmentation其實就是機器更大scale
评分太淺了 | 易被機器取代的工種: 需大量閱讀/數據的 不強調溝通和應變(審時度勢)的 | bureaucracy放慢automation | 文中說的所謂augmentation其實就是機器更大scale
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