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COPYRIGHT © 2015
The Future
of WorkJanuary 29, 2015

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If you knew everything about tomorrow,
what would you do differently today?

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AP•PLIED
FU•TUR•ISMAccurately painting the varied and paradoxical
landscapes of tomorrow to Futurize your business

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Predict ItTo Create the Future,
You Must First Accurately
Houses and Cars will be smarT, capable
OF communicating with humans
1991THE !
POPCORN REPORT
Print film is Dead,
Digital is Next
1988WE TOLD !
KODAK
Advertising on the Internet
will out-pace ads ON TV
1996QUOTED IN
NEWSWEEK
Bottled Water will be the
next big thing
1986RECOMMENDATION !
TO COCA-COLA
Car and House sharing will become
DAILY norms
2008L.A. TIMES
INTERVIEW

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17lensesto view the future

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FUTURE
VISION
2025

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We are entering a time of head-spinning, mind-bending upheaval.
WORK, AS WE KNOW IT, IS DYING.
Careers and offices: Over. The robots are marching in, taking !
more and more skilled jobs. To keep humans from becoming
totally obsolete, the government must intervene,
incentivizing companies to keep people on the payroll.
Otherwise, robots would job-eliminate them. For the class
of highly-trained elite workers, however, things have never
been better. Maneuvering from project to project, these free-
agents thrive. Employers, eager to secure their human talent, lavish
them with luxurious benefits and unprecedented flexibility. !
The gap between the Have’s and the Have-Nots has never been wider.

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She’s 32, works for Google,
NeuroText and VitaFeed as a
content distributor. She and her
partners David, Ashley & Emma
co-parent one 10-year-old. She
has her eggs on ice, is passionate
about holographic fitness, Human
Worker Rights and her booming
Oculus RiftX travel agency.
JESSICA 2025

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Sales of VitaFeed side business doubled; "
reprogram all-robotic workforce to increase productivity
6:45 AM
FUTUREVISION: 2025

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Interview candidates for Managing Director OccuXTravel
(Reminder: must hire 3 more humans this year to avoid Disemployment Tax)
10:00 AM
FUTUREVISION: 2025

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Virtual trip to Shanghai is next week: Download
Mandarin Language Program to implanted chip
11:30 AM
FUTUREVISION: 2025

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Holographic meeting with Human Worker
Alliance board members
11:45 AM
FUTUREVISION: 2025

14.
Log two more hours with NeuroText to unlock $5000
vacation bonus
1:15 PM
FUTUREVISION: 2025

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Holographic yoga class with Mumbai group
3:45 PM
FUTUREVISION: 2025

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Synesthesia sex with David; implanted chip releases
extra melatonin and vitamins for better sleep
9:30 PM
FUTUREVISION: 2025

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FutureVision 2025
THE ROBOT
REVOLUTION1
STAFF
SUSPENSION2
Augmented
Humanity3
THE EVAPORATING
OFFICE4
Meta-Managers
RISING5

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THE ROBOT
REVOLUTION

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Honor-Roll Robot
A robot graduates from
prestigious Tokyo college
A chatbot passed the "
Turing Test and was judged
to be human
NOW

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Minimum-Wage Bots
Lowe’s OSHBot
NOW
3D & Body Scanner
Human Body Frame
Detection
Autonomous Navigation
Smart Laser Sensor
Customer Engagement
• Speech Recognition!
• Product Information !
& Location!
• Inventory Integration!
Beacons
Obstacle Avoidance
Smart Laser Sensor

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Tip-Earning Tech
NOW

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RLC (Robot Loving Care)
They can nurture the elderly or babysit the young
NOW

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White-Collar Bots
They’re infiltrating high-income careers from medicine to mechanical engineering
NOW

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The Robot Revolution
1 in 3Jobs robo-replaced by
2025140M workers displaced
NEXT

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TomorrowVision
Will Robots unionize and demand
Android Civil Rights?
Will displaced humans
wind up serving the
elite robotic class?
FUTURE
OPPORTUNITY:

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STAFF
SUSPENSION

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Self-Scheduled
Currently 33% of Americans are
freelancers. By 2020, it will be 50%
Most work for 2-3
companies at a time
NOW

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The Match Game Has Begun
Etsy and Mechanical Turk are
the seeds of this revolution
NOW
Find"
Tasks
Complete "
Work
Make"
Money
Openbadges: Stickers that showcase
your skills for employers

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We embrace the ongoing riffing and remixing of identity
NOW
Meet the Hyphenates
2Chains: "
Rapper-Cookbook Author
Karlie Kloss: "
Model-Cookie Magnate
Justin Timberlake "
& Ashton Kutcher: "
Performers-Start-up Investors
Jessica Alba "
& Blake Lively: "
Actress-Lifestyle Guru
Tavi Gevinson:"
Broadway Actor-"
Fashion Critic-"
Publisher

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The New Ad-Hocracy
For humans, “careers” are over. Able to work anytime "
& anyplace, virtual freelancers manage multiple jobs
BEAMING: Robots "
will enable telepresence"
so you can be anywhere
NEXT

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Perfected Pairing
These free agents market their skills via hyper-powerful matching engines
NEXT

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TomorrowVision
What happens to those who can’t
get job-matched?
FUTURE
OPPORTUNITY:

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Augmented
Humanity

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Tech Today
We already have:
NOW
Google’s Smart Lens
monitors blood sugar
Robotic “nano-scallop” swims through
blood & will do our bidding
Researchers
transmit
signals from
one person’s
brain to
another
Tiny implant analyzes
blood; sends data to MD

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The Gamification of Work
Every task will be incentivized and rewarded via our chips!
Emotional Monitors to
ensure we are motivated
Complete jobs faster, better to earn bonus pay
NOW

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Augmented Humanity Has Arrived
Tomorrow’s worker is a hybrid of biology and technology
NEXT

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Programmed for Success
Always-upgradable embedded chips
allow us to interface, deliver work
and track our productivity.
$100 Module: Auto-translation
$500 Module: Big Data Analysis 3.4
$1500 Module: Energy For Insomniacs
NEXT

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The Future of Fitbits
NEXT

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TomorrowVision
FUTURE
Where is the IT MD to service
our augmented biology?
OPPORTUNITY:

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THE EVAPORATING
OFFICE

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The Stay-Home Surge
34 million Americans
work from home today
2016: 63 million, or 43%
of the U.S. workforce
NOW

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Hologram Meetings
Julian Assange’s virtual interview while in political asylum
NOW

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Work 360°
Go from home to office without going anywhere
NEXT

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TomorrowVision
Who will create the Omni-Cocoon, !
where work and life roll ahead?
FUTURE
OPPORTUNITY:

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Meta-Managers
RISING

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Lifestyle Lift
Today, 63% say that benefits are a key reason to stay with an employer
NOW
Facebook
gives new
families
$4000 in
baby cash
FullContact Software:"
$7,500 vacation fund per year
Google to cover DNA testing for
some workers and families
Facebook & Apple cover
egg-freezing costs
SAS Culinary Farm "
on its campus

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The Happiness Habit
Workers already expect a good mood
NOW
Google "happiness":
75m hits; nearly 40,000
books
Harvard’s Positive Psychology "
= the most popular course in history
Only 30 percent of US
employees feel engaged at
work; companies vying to
raise that number

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Fewer Fulltime Staffers
Company owners become efficiency experts/therapists/organizational
gurus/Office Moms who deliver a happier, healthier, richer life to prized
providers
NEXT

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HR Reinvented
The Meta-Manager accelerates
workers’ productivity by gifting new
knowledge modules, gamified perks,
and ownership shares
NEXT

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Next-Gen Benefit Nirvana
In this seller’s market for highly trained freelancers, !
Meta-Managers will offer esteemed employees such perks as:
NEXT
Stem-Cell
Therapy
Elite Chip
Upgrades
Genetic Engineering"
for future kids
Mood-Boosting Brain Implant
Virtual Reality Vacations

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TomorrowVision
Who will offer Immortality Insurance
and give workers extended life?
FUTURE
OPPORTUNITY:

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Sales of VitaFeed side business doubled; reprogram
all-robotic workforce to increase productivity
Interview candidates for Managing Director OccuXTravel
(Reminder: must hire 3 more humans this year to avoid
Disemployment Tax)
Virtual trip to Shanghai is next week: Download
Mandarin Language Program to implanted chip
Holographic meeting with Human Worker Alliance board
members
Log two more hours with NeuroText to unlock $5000
vacation bonus
Holographic yoga class with Mumbai group
Synesthesia sex with David; implanted chip releases extra
melatonin and vitamins for better sleep
6:45 am
10:00 am
11:30 am
11:45 am
1:15 pm
3:45 pm
9:30 pm
FUTUREVISION: 2025

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Tomorrow?
Are you ready for the work-life of