Why Modern Work Makes Us Miserable
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What’s gone wrong with our workplace culture? Dan Lyons explores how we can put people back at the centre of our working practices.
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Videos & Audio
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Team Human
Renowned thinker Douglas Rushkoff argues that amidst increasing automation and alienation, humanity’s best path forward is to restore the social bonds that define our existence.
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The Truth About Algorithms | Cathy O'Neil
We often think that algorithms are objective and fair, but they’re built to serve the people who create them – how can we make sure that the process of building algorithms is ethical?
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Good Work in the New Machine Age
As the RSA launches its new Future Work Centre, an expert panel considers how we can harness new technologies to create a better world of work.
Publications
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This paper summarises the findings of a project by the RSA, the Open Data Institute (ODI) and Luminate exploring narratives around data rights and data ownership: how people feel about data about them, and how we can find ...
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Engaging citizens in the ethical use of AI for automated decision-making.
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Will AI and robotics lead to the decimation of our labour market? Our new report questions whether this concern is justified.
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In this major new policy report, the first in the Power to Create series, Anthony Painter and Louise Bamfield argue that major institutional change to work and learning is needed to promote ‘inclusive social mobility'.
Articles & Blogs
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As we launch the RSA’s Tech and Society programme, Asheem Singh reflects on a corresponding programme of events at RSA House.
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Director of Economy Asheem Singh on why the RSA, ODI and Luminate have launched a campaign empower people to take back control of their data.
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Data monopolies makes changing between music services hard. But it’s much more serious for gig economy workers.
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Given the situation where tech is increasingly used against workers as a surveillance tool, how can tech be designed to support workers? Johanna Herman, founder of Workerbird, shares her insights.
Projects
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We are not simply facing the short-term costs of an economic downturn, but the consequences of an ageing, unsustainably consuming and carbon-dependent society. This situation should indeed make governments, businesses ...
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Mapping and connecting food businesses with charities able to provide meals for citizens on low income.
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Events
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Early Facebook investor and Zuckerberg mentor Roger McNamee exposes the threats posed by the internet giants to our political order and public health
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Fellow Event
RSA Online: Exploring the Four Futures of Work
Tuesday 9th July 2019
Online via Zoom (timing of event is in BST)
This online interactive discussion is your chance to explore four scenarios of future work and to share your thoughts with our researchers.
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Fellow Event
RSA Screening: Future Politics - Living together in a world transformed ...
Thursday 30th May 2019
Online & Rawthmells Coffeehouse
This May, Fellows across the UK and beyond are invited to join us online or in Rawthmells to hear this timely discussion once again.
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What’s gone wrong with our workplace culture? Dan Lyons explores how we can put people back at the centre of our working practices.