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Pew's Internet and American Life Project
Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project "aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the internet through surveys that examine how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives."
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Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff is the author of "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now," as well as a dozen other books on media, technology, and culture, including "Program or Be Programmed" and "Life Inc."
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Arc
Published bimonthly and from the makers of New Scientist, Arc is a digital publication for futurists about how technology will shape our future.
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Data & Society Research Institute
In 2014 the Data & Society Research Institute produced five issue primers that examine the impact of several emerging technologies on work. Authors Alex Rosenblat, Tamara Kneese, and danah boyd explore 1) workplace surveillance, 2) networked employment discrimination, 3) intelligent systems and robotics, 4) technologically mediated artisanal production, and 5) fair labor practices in a networked age.
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Lilly Irani
Professor Lilly Irani, University of California San Diego, is co-founder and co-designer of Dynamo, a platform for crowdsource workers to rate and review Amazon's Mechanical Turk employers. Lilly explores how networked communication technologies can be designed to support collective action by online workers as they face decentralization and shifting employer accountability.
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David Autor
David Autor is a leading labor economist and professor at the MIT Department of Economics. His current fields of specialization include human capital, earnings inequality, and labor market impacts of technological change.
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PWC Consulting
PWC's "Future of Work in 2022" report explores the changing business landscape, disruptive innovations, and the ways in which new technologies will impact business practice in the future.
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Pew Report
"AI, Robotics and the Future of Work"
In 2014, the Pew Research Center's Internet Project published the report "AI, Robotics, and the Future of Work" which polled leading technology experts on digital life in 2025.
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Gina Neff
Gina Neff is a sociologist at the University of Washington and expert on contemporary economics of media production and the political economy of communication by examining the relationship between work and technology in both high-tech and media industries. Author of "Venture Labor," which examines the risk and uncertainties borne by New York City's new media pioneers during the first internet boom.
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Wanda Orlikowski
Wanda Orlikowski is a Professor of Management and Information Technologies and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Expert on the dynamic relationship between information technologies and organizations, with particular emphasis on structures, cultures, work practices, and change.
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Judy Wajcman
Judy Wajcman is a sociologist at the London School of Economics and expert on the sociology of work and employment, science and technology studies, gender theory, and organizational analysis. Author of "Pressed for Time," which is about the acceleration of life in digital capitalism.
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Steve Barley
Steve Barley is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering and the Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization at Stanford University. Expert on technology's role in occupational and organizational change. Author of "Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies," which is about the knowledge economy.
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Gideon Kunda
Gideon Kunda is a Professor in Labor Studies at Tel Aviv University and expert on organizational culture. Author of "Engineering Culture," about high-tech corporations.
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Beth Bechky
Beth Bechky is a Professor of Management and Organizations at New York University. Expert on the micro-sociology of work including the interactions and dynamics at organizational and occupational boundaries.
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David Stark
David Stark is a sociologist and Director of the Center on Organizational Innovation at Columbia University. Author of "The Sense of Dissonance," which is about how organizations and their members search for what is valuable.
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Paul Leonardi
Paul Leonardi is a Professor of Technology Management at UC Santa Barbara. Expert on how companies create and share knowledge and on how implementing new technologies and harnessing the power of informal social networks can help companies create innovative products and services. Author of "Car Crashes without Cars," which is about simulation technology and organizational change.
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Diane Bailey
Diane Bailey is a Professor of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Expert on how people use information technology in their everyday work and what happens when they do including the social and organizational context of technology use.
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Melissa Mazmanian
Melissa Mazmanian is a Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Expert on the experience of communication technologies as used in-practice within organizational and personal contexts.
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Mary Gray
Mary Gray is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. Expert on how people use digital and social media including crowdwork and "immaterial labor."
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Pamela Hinds
Pamela Hinds is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Co-Director of the Center on Work, Technology, and Organization at Stanford University. Expert on the effect of technology on groups. Editor of "Distributed Work," which is about geographically distributed work teams.
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Woody Powell
Woody Powell is a sociologist at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Expert on how knowledge is transferred across organizations, the role of networks in facilitating or hindering innovation.
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JoAnne Yates
JoAnne Yates is a Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Expert on communication and information as they shape and are shaped by technologies and policies over time. Author of "Structuring the Information Age," which is about information processing in the commercial sector and the influence of corporate users in shaping the history of modern technologies.
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Shoshana Zuboff
Shoshana Zuboff is a Psychologist and Professor of Business Administration (retired) at the Harvard Business School. Author of "In the Age of the Smart Machine," which is about the distribution of power in organizations.
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Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr is a writer about technology and culture. Author of "The Glass Cage," which examines the personal and social consequences of our dependency on computers.
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Simon Head
Simon Head is an Associate Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University and Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. Author of "The New Ruthless Economy," and "Mindless," which are about work, automation and power in the digital age.
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Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Ruth Schwartz Cowan is a Professor Emerita of History and Sociology of Science at University of Pennsylvania. Expert on the history of technology. Author of "More Work for Mother," which is about how the adoption of domestic technologies resulted in higher standards of cleanliness and shifted the burden of work from men and children to women.
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Mel Gregg
Mel Gregg is a Principal Engineer in User Experience Research in Intel Labs. Expert on new models of labor and enterprise both within and outside formal workplaces. Author of "Work's Intimacy," which is about the impact of digital technology on the work and personal lives of professionals.
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Melissa Cefkin
Melissa Cefkin is an anthropologist and manager of Discovery Practices group in IBM's Accelerated Discovery Lab. Expert on workplace ethnography including reconfigurations of work and labor related to new ways of conceptualizing, designing and executing work using open, crowd, and big data-driven practices.
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Laura Forlano
Laura Forlano is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology where she is co-director of the Critical Futures Lab. Expert on critical approaches to emerging technologies, emergent forms of organizing and work and the socio-technical practices and spaces of innovation. She uses participatory and speculative design in order to engage diverse stakeholders in conversations and hands-on engagements that raise questions about alternative possible futures.
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Jeremy Rifkin
author of "The End of Work"
Founder of Foundation of Economic Trends.
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Farhad Manjoo
Contributor to Slate and Future Tense
Journalist for "Slate" on technology, works with "Future Tense" project as well.
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Third Way Think Tank
Published report called "Dancing with Robots" calling for improved human skills for technological era.
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Frank Levy & Richard Murnane
MIT & Harvard
Two leading technology and education researchers who think about technologies impact on the labor market.
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The Atlantic Council
Robotics Impact
Released report "Rising Robotics and the Third Industrial Revolution" which investigates robotics impact on work, healthcare and other social issues.
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Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technology
IEET's mission is to be a center for voices arguing for a responsible, constructive, ethical approach to the most powerful emerging technologies.
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MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
The Initiative's goal is to be a center for research and reflection on the subjective side of technology and to raise the level of public discourse on the social and psychological dimensions of technological change.
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Singularity University
Ray Kurzweil
Convenes future leaders, entrepreneurs, and technologists for 10 weeks to work on team-based technology solutions to widespread global challenges.
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Jaron Lanier
Microsoft Technologist
Computer scientist and author of "Who Owns the Future" which lays out a vision for a new information economy that could benefit the middle class.
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Co-Exist "Futurist Forum"
The website "Co-Exist" generates original content on the Future of Work through its online "Futurist Forum."
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Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
MIT
Co-Authors of the book "Race Against the Machine" and leading voices on technological unemployment. Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson are both based at MIT's Center for Digital Business.
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W. Brian Arthur
Professor, Santa Fe Institute,
INET Fellow
Leading economist and technology thinker. He is best known for his pioneering work on positive feedbacks or increasing returns in the economy —what happens when products that gain market share find it easier to gain further market share— and their role in locking markets in to the domination of a single player.
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The Work Revolution Summit
Co-Create The Future Of Work
This was a September 2013 invite-only session for startups, entrepreneurs, and futurists which aimed to completely re-design the way the business and tech sectors conduct work.