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Podcast: Future Cities · Sustainability, Energy, Innovation, Climate Change, Transport, Housing, Work, Circular Economy, Education & Environmental Solutions
Episode: Ben Pring · Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work & Author of Monster: A Tough Love Letter On Taming the Machines that Rule Our Jobs, Lives (Highlights)
Description: Ben Pring discusses the future of work, cities, and the upside and downside of technology.“They’re single-purpose engines doing one thing in extraordinary ways, and they’ve been encouraged in that by the ecosystem around them, by the funding that’s being pumped into them by people whose only motivation is simply to make more money–and you can see the results of that in the world as this technology has grown from a little acorn to now being the biggest Sequoia in the forest. And it’s shading every other tree, it’s taking all the light, it’s ta...