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The Future of Work
How Technology Will Change the Way We Work

Technology has dramatically changed the way we work: it automates processes, collects and organizes our information, and offers new lines for global communication. It both opens new industries and shutters traditional strongholds at an accelerating pace, and it continually redefines what it means to “work” in the world today. Advances in areas such as robotics and artificial intelligence have caused equal amounts of excitement and alarm. How will technology of the future continue affect our work? Will the pace of innovation continue to accelerate?

Cosponsored by the Chicago Council on Science and Technology and Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Speakers:
Malcolm MacIver
Associate professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering, Northwestern University

Kris Hammond and Larry Birnbaum
Professors of computer science, Northwestern University
Cofounders, Narrative Science

Joel Mokyr
Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of economics and history, Northwestern University

Moderator:
Julio M. Ottino
Dean, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern University