{"id":9495,"date":"2014-07-30T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T05:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=9495"},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T06:08:30","slug":"linking-learning-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2014\/07\/30\/linking-learning-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Linking learning &#038; labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a huge Asimov fan, and am constantly amazed at how he was able to have a perspective of the future on multiple fronts. I was reminded of two of those recently thanks to their application (of sorts) in contemporary scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>First,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hari_Seldon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hari Seldon<\/a>&#8216;s (pretty much the foundation of Asimov&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foundation_series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foundation series<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychohistory_(fictional)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">psychohistory<\/a>, which was able to make general predictions on the future behaviour of large populations using history, sociology and statistics. The easy contemporary connection is\u00a0big data and predictive analytics.<\/p>\n<p>Second, a short story written by him called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Profession_(short_story)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Profession<\/a>&#8216;, (do read) in which every person&#8217;s profession is based on an analysis of his\/her brain, and no choice is given to the person in this matter! In India, we seem to be already there even without the analysis!<\/p>\n<p>Collectively, these two made me think of employment, and on a related note, education. The thought was that with so much of data available on education and employment, we should be able to create &#8216;tests&#8217; to compute the interest and aptitude of individuals at a very early age. What this would aim to do is to eliminate the herd <em>education<\/em> that currently exists. Instead, children would <em>learn<\/em> things that help them in a profession for which they have the intent and interest, using say, a combination of traditional classrooms and MOOCs. Also, this would no longer be one part of a life cycle, but a continuous process &#8211; helping the individual thrive in a dynamic environment.<\/p>\n<p>If you remember,\u00a0LinkedIn was my representative for &#8216;L&#8217; in the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2014\/07\/09\/the-change-imperative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">change imperative<\/a>&#8216; deck. That was because I felt that it had the data and the vision to be the catalyst for this kind of a change. I was very happy when it underscored this faith\u00a0with the fantastic &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/07\/11\/linkedin-future-self\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">future self<\/a>&#8216; experiment, in which they identified the future professional self (5 year time frame) of LinkedIn user Kurt Wagner &#8211; another user Mussarat Bata &#8211; using various data points!<\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn hasn&#8217;t really built this as a public tool, but just imagine the possibilities! A platform that shows people the possibilities which take them closer to their &#8216;purpose&#8217;. (remember &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2013\/12\/18\/the-evolution-of-work-and-the-workplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Evolution of Work and the Workplace<\/a>&#8216;?) I sincerely hope to see this in my lifetime. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>until next time, live and learn<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9507 lazyload\" alt=\"Clipboard01\" data-src=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clipboard011.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"414\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clipboard011.jpg 616w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clipboard011-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clipboard011-600x403.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 616px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 616\/414;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a huge Asimov fan, and am constantly amazed at how he was able to have a perspective of the future on multiple fronts. I was reminded of two of those recently thanks to their application (of sorts) in contemporary scenarios. First,\u00a0Hari Seldon&#8216;s (pretty much the foundation of Asimov&#8217;s\u00a0Foundation series) psychohistory, which was able to <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2014\/07\/30\/linking-learning-labour\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6024,6052,1479,98,6026,6051,6053,6056,6025,6027],"tags":[452,2152,4583,453,2007,3332,153,1909],"class_list":["post-9495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brand","category-business","category-choices","category-thoughtstream","category-future","category-ideas-future","category-internet-thoughtstream","category-purpose","category-society-culture","category-work-culture","category-work-org-culture","tag-asimov","tag-education","tag-employment","tag-foundation","tag-hari-seldon","tag-learning","tag-linkedin","tag-profession"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14876,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions\/14876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}