The future of work - revisited
I was just reading Elizabeth Albrycht’s report on the the future of work congress over at Corporate PR (here) which reminded me of a conference on the Future of Work which I organized with Rudy Ruggles and the Center for Business Innovation back in 2001.
We invited 56 or so thinkers from all walks of live (scientists, psychologists, business people, consultants, architects, urban planners, analysts, designers, scientists, etc.) to come and brainstorm together around the future of work, workers, workplace and working. Attendees included David Weinberger, Michael Schrage, Larry Keeley, Birute Regine, Chris Meyer, Bob Luchetti, Wanda Orlikowski, and 49 others that will now feel left out if they read this. The point in me writing about this is not so much to reminisce about an old conference, but to resurface some of the predictions that were made at the time.
In one of the last excersises of the day we split the attendees into groups and asked them to create the cover magazine which we would likely be seeing in 2010. Here is what they came up with (5 images - make sure to click through - and sorry for the poor quality - I have a pdf of the write-up of the conference with better pictures if anyone is interested):
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May 4th, 2005 at 1:55 pm
I’m one of the co-hosts of the World Congress on the Future of Work that Elizabeth Albrycht was writing about - we had a terrific experience last week in Philadelphia with about 80 senior execs from the worlds of HR, IT, and facilities management coming together to explore the issues, opportunities, and challenges of creating a desirable future of work.
I’m crazy about the magazine covers - have used that technique before, but we didn’t this time.
For a more complete review of the World Congress, with lots of photos and “live” reports from the floor of the World Congress, please visit our weblog at http://www.thefutureofwork.net/blog.
And for more information about the World Congress itself, take a look at the event website, at http://www.futureofworkcongress.net. You can see the agenda there as well as Directory of all the Delegates and a photo album too.
Thanks for reminiscing and the magazine covers!
May 4th, 2005 at 2:05 pm
Some More Visions of the Future of Work
Francois Goisseaux found Elizabeth Albrycht’s report on our World Congress on the Future of Work, and it triggered some memories for him of a conference he organized several years ago on a similar theme. At his event, participants created a…