Photo By: PINTEREST The way we work has changed forever; yet the places (in particular, office buildings) we work haven’t changed much at all in the past 50 years. With more than 70 percent of the world’s population expected to live in cities by 2030, major policy shifts and corporate incentives increasingly favor urbanization, becoming the catalysts to a global urban renaissance. Global market forces, giant leaps forward in technology, and unprecedented climatic shifts are defining the 21st century. 1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics will create more jobs, not mass unemployment — as long as we responsibly guide innovation Whether artificial intelligence will rise up and take over is the subject of growing debate. AI is “our biggest existential threat” to mankind, claims tech leader Elon Musk. But science fiction is full of stories about machines usurping humans. It's not a notion supported by history or data. The impact of AI on the future does not s
PHOTO BY: http://kidoovation.com Yesterday's classroom won't prepare our kids for tomorrow's job market.It's time to rethink education, teaching the lessons they'll need for careers we can only imagine. With the accelerating pace of social and technological change, the World Economic Forum estimates that 65 per cent of children today will end up in careers that don't even exist yet. The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report 2016 argued that by 2020: “Creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need. With the upcoming of new products, new technologies and new ways of working, employees are going to have to become more creative in order to benefit from these changes.” Social abilities like networking, communication, negotiation, team-building and problem-solving a skills the children of today will need to develop to keep their jobs safe from automation. But recently, the World Economic Forum asked executives from some o