Benjamin Pring |Jun 05, 2018

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

Multiple Authors |May 23, 2018

With every click we make online, our interests, preferences, intent and even location are revealed to those we trust –...

Benjamin Pring |May 16, 2018

The mythos of the young person leaving home to find their fortune is as old as recorded history. And some. As early as Revelation...

Multiple Authors |May 15, 2018

Traffic congestion marked by thick red lines on a Google Map. A browser that remembers your credit card code. Tracking down a...

Benjamin Pring |Apr 17, 2018

One of the most intriguing tidbits from the future I’ve seen recently was this story from The Verge Apple virtual augmented...

Benjamin Pring |Apr 03, 2018

If data is the new oil, Cambridge Analytica is a gusher Facebook needs to put out ... If you recall, the British Petroleum leased...

Benjamin Pring |Mar 20, 2018

I’m frequently asked about how somebody should prepare themselves for the future of work. It’s a great question,...

Benjamin Pring |Feb 15, 2018

In 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In it, he outlined and explained the emergence of...

Benjamin Pring |Feb 07, 2018

There’s a lot of talk in the market these days about the need to keep “the human in the loop”. Analysts, journalists,...

Benjamin Pring |Jan 31, 2018

The theme of the recent World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos was Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World. These...

Benjamin Pring |Jan 25, 2018

At any other time of year, few people walking past Kramers Wine & Design store on the Promenade in Davos would guess it would...

Benjamin Pring |Jan 22, 2018

AI and automation are forever altering the workplace, but work isn’t going away anytime soon. Our recent webinar explored...

Benjamin Pring |Jan 12, 2018

At last year’s annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos, there was a palpable sense of shock and disbelief...

Benjamin Pring |Dec 28, 2017

As 2017 comes to an end, fear of the bot remains strong. In a year that’s seen an explosion of interest in all things AI,...

Benjamin Pring |Dec 05, 2017

Picture these scenes; A 45 year old man in a call center, at 9:17pm on a Wednesday evening, sitting at his phone waiting for...

Benjamin Pring |Nov 15, 2017

21 Jobs of the Future: A Guide to Getting – and Staying – Employed Over the Next 10 Years Concern about a “jobless...

Multiple Authors |Nov 15, 2017

21 Jobs of the Future: A Guide to Getting – and Staying – Employed Over the Next 10 Years Concern about a “jobless...

Benjamin Pring |Nov 10, 2017

We made a conscious decision in writing What to Do When Machines Do Everything that we would focus on AI’s role in wealth...

Benjamin Pring |Oct 09, 2017

Quite rightly, we stand back in amazement at the progress artificial intelligence is making day by day. This week news broke...

Benjamin Pring |Sep 26, 2017

Here’s a curious thing. Anyone who’s at all interested in the leading edge of business and technology knows that...

Benjamin Pring |Sep 21, 2017

If you’re a music fan you probably know the name Clive Davis. If you’re not though – and heaven help you -...

Benjamin Pring |Sep 12, 2017

In the six months since the publication of What to Do When Machines Do Everything I, and my fellow authors, have been to all...

Benjamin Pring |Jul 28, 2017

With the recent deaths of Chuck Berry and Robert Pirsig, and the growing reality of self-driving cars, there is a sense that...

Benjamin Pring |Jul 13, 2017

We are in the midst of an under-reported work crisis. Not an employment crisis – unemployment levels in the G7 are at historic...

Benjamin Pring |Jun 19, 2017

Regular readers will know that we here at the Center for the Future of Work like to brand ourselves as “thinkers of the...

Benjamin Pring |May 22, 2017

According to Forrester Research, the global technology industry is worth just shy of $3 trillion. Some estimates suggest that...

Benjamin Pring |Apr 28, 2017

In writing What to Do When Machines Do Everything we met with lots of different people on the forefront of developing and deploying...

Benjamin Pring |Apr 25, 2017

Central to the election of President Trump, the populist support of Brexit, and the distrust of so many institutions at the heart...

Benjamin Pring |Apr 11, 2017

A lot of people are talking a lot about AI at the moment (including yours truly http://amzn.to/2oyH3c7) but nobody’s stopped...

Benjamin Pring |Apr 05, 2017

As the great Danish physicist, Niels Bohr, put it, “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future”....

Benjamin Pring |Mar 28, 2017

Look into the future. Stare at it. Let your mind wander. Tell me, what do you see? Do you see possibility, opportunity, a blank...

Benjamin Pring |Mar 21, 2017

Given the trajectory artificial intelligence is on, machines will soon do everything that people do today. In a world of increasingly...

Benjamin Pring |Jan 30, 2017

For those of us in the futurology business the concept of disruption has long been a central organizing principle of how we look...

Benjamin Pring |Jan 20, 2017

The second hottest topic of conversation in World Economic Forum (WEF) conference rooms and Davos restaurants this week: What...

Benjamin Pring |Jan 13, 2017

As we approach this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, a new economy – a digital economy –...

Benjamin Pring |Jan 12, 2017

2017 is set to be a big year for the digitally transforming. To check you’re on course, take this quick and dirty self-diagnostic,...

Benjamin Pring |Nov 23, 2016

So, as turkeys across America are read their last rites, it’s that time of the year when we take stock of what’s...

Benjamin Pring |Oct 24, 2016

"The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgment."...

Multiple Authors |Oct 16, 2016

With new machines and new business models based on information, the rules of the game are being rewritten. In this, the first...

Benjamin Pring |Aug 19, 2016

A few years ago, I had the good fortune to have dinner at the Goldeneye Hotel in Jamaica. With a name like that, you won’t...

Benjamin Pring |Aug 08, 2016

“Why did music hall die out? Because it was sh-te”. Alexei Sayle The nostalgics who are clogging up your group, department,...

Benjamin Pring |Jun 24, 2016

The $26bn acquisition of Linked-In by Microsoft last week is a bit of a digital Rorschach test. To some folks I’ve talked...

Benjamin Pring |Jun 20, 2016

One of the most frequent questions I get on my travels is “what should my kids study and/or do early in their career to...

Benjamin Pring |May 04, 2016

Amazon’s unanticipated success with Echo – try getting hold of one at the moment! – has begun an interesting...

Benjamin Pring |Apr 07, 2016

As a minor representative of the Earth bound, life based form, commonly known as a “human being,” I think a lot –...

Benjamin Pring |Mar 29, 2016

As someone who’s worked remotely for the last 17 years at companies leveraging “flat world” principles http://amzn.to/1j6j1yN...

Benjamin Pring |Feb 23, 2016

The music industry has been the canary in the coal mine of digital disruption over the last 25 years. From the launch of the...

Benjamin Pring |Feb 03, 2016

“Computers are useless; they can only give you answers”. Pablo Picasso For anyone paying attention – as I know,...

Benjamin Pring |Jan 22, 2016

Here’s a question for you; what do the following quotes from the news this week have in common? “In 2014, for the...

Benjamin Pring |Dec 23, 2015

So, as 2015 winds down and re-runs of It’s a Wonderful Life beckon it’s that time of year again; to think –...

Benjamin Pring |Dec 16, 2015

2015 has been an incredible year for “Digital” as the pace of adoption and transformation has accelerated. 2016 is...

Benjamin Pring |Nov 18, 2015

As Cloud Computing approaches its 18th birthday, it’s a good moment to consider what comes next. Given that “the...

Benjamin Pring |Nov 10, 2015

With due acknowledgment of the shoulders I’m standing on – Marcel Proust and Graydon Carter take a bow – I...

Benjamin Pring |Nov 03, 2015

Two vignettes that illustrate how fast the world is changing ... --------------------------- SCENE ONE A corporate meeting room....

Benjamin Pring |Oct 27, 2015

Two recent pieces of data to consider; firstly, a report on the future of the IT Services market by UBS http://bit.ly/1XtmIxi...

Benjamin Pring |Oct 15, 2015

If the future of work is about creativity, imagination, thinking differently, then it stands to reason that creating the environment,...

Benjamin Pring |Sep 08, 2015

If software is eating the world – and who am I to disagree with @pmarca? – then it stands to reason that your business...

Benjamin Pring |Aug 27, 2015

We live in an age of miracles. It is a miracle that; I can watch West Ham United play live while I’m on a plane flying...

Benjamin Pring |Jul 21, 2015

While we wait for the Apple Car, here’s another idea for Tim and Jonny to noodle on (you’re welcome fellas); perhaps...

Benjamin Pring |Jul 09, 2015

On my travels talking to executives about the world of digital and Code Halos I’ve noticed an interesting disconnect. On...

Benjamin Pring |Jun 18, 2015

Amidst all of the existential questioning of the modern world that pervades the media (and our dinner parties) at the moment,...

Benjamin Pring |May 29, 2015

The most impactful book that I’ve read about business recently is one that’s got nothing to do with business. The...

Benjamin Pring |Apr 27, 2015

As the co-director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work and the parent of two teenage children thinking about the...

Benjamin Pring |Apr 13, 2015

I’ve been thinking a lot about two statistics I’ve heard recently, one from a colleague, the other from a client;...

Benjamin Pring |Mar 24, 2015

Wandering the electronics aisles of my local big box retailer the other day (no names, but you can probably guess who) as Cost...

Benjamin Pring |Mar 13, 2015

In this era of arbitrage and automation the one thing, so conventional wisdom has it, that will keep us safe when things go bump...

Benjamin Pring |Feb 16, 2015

For Christmas Santa Claus brought me an iRobot Roomba 650 vacuum cleaner. It’s fabulous. I’m really not sure I’ve...

Benjamin Pring |Feb 03, 2015

Over Christmas I was back in England enjoying the holiday season with family and friends. In the very pretty village of Winchelsea,...

Benjamin Pring |Nov 28, 2014

Every day brings new evidence that we’re seemingly doomed to lose the race against the machine; now even the quants have...

Benjamin Pring |Nov 19, 2014

If you’re old enough to remember, the phrase “Y2K” either brings back nightmarish memories or a yawn. My old...

Benjamin Pring |Nov 04, 2014

This may be very presumptuous of me; but here goes anyway! As you may have noticed the stars seem to be aligning around Alan...