7 Quotes by Richard Susskind

We are advancing into a post-professional society.

If we leave it to professionals themselves to reinvent their workplace, are we asking the rabbits to guard the lettuce?

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. CLAY SHIRKY.

It is interesting to note, harking back again to the exponential growth of information technology, that the hardware on which Watson ran in 2011 was said to be about the size of the average bedroom. Today, we are told, it runs on a machine that is the size of three pizza boxes, and by the early 2020s Watson will sit comfortably in a smartphone.

People generally prefer problem-avoidance and problem-containment to problem-solving.

Nonetheless, that know-how is often unmanageable. Avoidable failures are common and persistent, not to mention demoralizing and frustrating, across many fields – from medicine to finance, business to government. And the reason is increasingly evident: the volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or reliably.9.

The deeper issue here is that any changes in the work that people do tend to originate at the level of particular tasks involved, and not with the job in general terms.