Machine learning will not spell the end of work, but will have profound effects on the economy. Researchers developed a list of questions designed to evaluate whether a task or a job is suitable for ...

Psychology and other "helping professions" such as counselling and social work are often regarded as quintessentially human domains. Unlike workers in manual or routine jobs, psychologists generally ...

The world of careers and work is changing rapidly. The idea that we spend the first 20 years of life training for a job that we will do until we retire is far behind us. As society changes, old ...

NPR’s Quoctrung Bui has put together a number of cool charts on automation and labor markets. I will pull out two version of the same chart, showing how machines have been destroying (farming and blue ...

The problem with infrastructure is that it tends to be expensive. And slow to build. And hard to maintain. Oh, and also kind of boring. Most people only notice it when it collapses, like an old bridge ...