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LSE IQ | Intelligent questions with social science answersWill AI free us from work?Will artificial intelligence cause huge unemployment? Will it free us from working? Will it replace us? In this special edition of LSE iQ, Sophie Mallett sits down with Professor Judy Wajcman, LSE’s Emeritus Professor of Sociology and one of the world’s leading voices on technology and society. Together, they explore one of the biggest questions of our time: what does artificial intelligence really mean for the future of work?
In this wide-ranging conversation, Judy shares what really saves people time, talks about the fear of job replacement, and warns of the dangers of letting the most powerful tech comp...
2025-11-0421 minLSE PodcastsWill AI free us from work?Will artificial intelligence cause huge unemployment? Will it free us from working? Will it replace us? In this special edition of LSE iQ, Sophie Mallett sits down with Professor Judy Wajcman, LSE’s Emeritus Professor of Sociology and one of the world’s leading voices on technology and society. Together, they explore one of the biggest questions of our time: what does artificial intelligence really mean for the future of work?
In this wide-ranging conversation, Judy shares what really saves people time, talks about the fear of job replacement, and warns of the dangers of letting the most powerful tech comp...
2025-11-0421 min
LSE IQ podcastWill AI free us from work?Contributor(s): Professor Judy Wajcman | In this wide-ranging conversation, Judy shares what really saves people time, talks about the fear of job replacement, and warns of the dangers of letting the most powerful tech companies design the future
From Silicon Valley boardrooms to everyday lives, Judy challenges us to think differently about progress, productivity, and what we truly value as work.
Contributors: Judy Wacjman
Research links:
From connection to optimisation
How Silicon Valley sets time
Feminism confronts AI: the gender relations of digitalisation
LSE iQ is a university podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Take the...
2025-11-0421 minLSE IQWill AI free us from work?Contributor(s): Professor Judy Wajcman | In this wide-ranging conversation, Judy shares what really saves people time, talks about the fear of job replacement, and warns of the dangers of letting the most powerful tech companies design the future
From Silicon Valley boardrooms to everyday lives, Judy challenges us to think differently about progress, productivity, and what we truly value as work.
Contributors: Judy Wacjman
Research links:
From connection to optimisation
How Silicon Valley sets time
Feminism confronts AI: the gender relations of digitalisation
LSE iQ is a university podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Take the...
2025-11-0421 min
All items | LSE Public lectures and events | All media typesWill AI free us from work?Contributor(s): | Will artificial intelligence cause huge unemployment? Will it free us from working? Will it replace us? In this special edition of LSE iQ, Sophie Mallett sits down with Professor Judy Wajcman, LSE’s Emeritus Professor of Sociology and one of the world’s leading voices on technology and society. Together, they explore one of the biggest questions of our time: what does artificial intelligence really mean for the future of work?
In this wide-ranging conversation, Judy shares what really saves people time, talks about the fear of job replacement, and warns of the dangers of letting the most powe...
2025-10-2821 minLatest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | AudioWill AI free us from work?Contributor(s): | Will artificial intelligence cause huge unemployment? Will it free us from working? Will it replace us? In this special edition of LSE iQ, Sophie Mallett sits down with Professor Judy Wajcman, LSE’s Emeritus Professor of Sociology and one of the world’s leading voices on technology and society. Together, they explore one of the biggest questions of our time: what does artificial intelligence really mean for the future of work?
In this wide-ranging conversation, Judy shares what really saves people time, talks about the fear of job replacement, and warns of the dangers of letting the most powe...
2025-10-2821 minLatest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | All media typesWill AI free us from work?Contributor(s): | Will artificial intelligence cause huge unemployment? Will it free us from working? Will it replace us? In this special edition of LSE iQ, Sophie Mallett sits down with Professor Judy Wajcman, LSE’s Emeritus Professor of Sociology and one of the world’s leading voices on technology and society. Together, they explore one of the biggest questions of our time: what does artificial intelligence really mean for the future of work?
In this wide-ranging conversation, Judy shares what really saves people time, talks about the fear of job replacement, and warns of the dangers of letting the most powe...
2025-10-2821 minLatest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoWill AI free us from work?Contributor(s): | Will artificial intelligence cause huge unemployment? Will it free us from working? Will it replace us? In this special edition of LSE iQ, Sophie Mallett sits down with Professor Judy Wajcman, LSE’s Emeritus Professor of Sociology and one of the world’s leading voices on technology and society. Together, they explore one of the biggest questions of our time: what does artificial intelligence really mean for the future of work?
In this wide-ranging conversation, Judy shares what really saves people time, talks about the fear of job replacement, and warns of the dangers of letting the most powe...
2025-10-2821 minLatest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoWill AI free us from work?Contributor(s): | Will artificial intelligence cause huge unemployment? Will it free us from working? Will it replace us? In this special edition of LSE iQ, Sophie Mallett sits down with Professor Judy Wajcman, LSE’s Emeritus Professor of Sociology and one of the world’s leading voices on technology and society. Together, they explore one of the biggest questions of our time: what does artificial intelligence really mean for the future of work?
In this wide-ranging conversation, Judy shares what really saves people time, talks about the fear of job replacement, and warns of the dangers of letting the most powe...
2025-10-2821 min
The Sociology of Everything PodcastDonald MacKenzie & Judy Wajcman's Social Shaping of Technology (ft. Judy Wajcman)In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss celebrate their podcast reaching a quarter million downloads by spotlighting a work that has significantly developed the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS): Donald Mackenzie and Judy Wajcman’s influential introductory chapter in their anthology on The Social Shaping of Technology, first published in 1985, and later updated in 1999. This text develops an oft cited critique of technological determinism, which posits that technology is an autonomous force in society, which is the primary driver of social change. Discussing this work leads Eric and Louis to talk about the Trump branded smartphone, La...
2025-09-021h 02
Woman's HourListener Week: Seatbelts and busts, Recruitment and AI, Married but living apartTo kick this week off, we heard from listener Melanie Williams. Melanie is forever having to adjust her seatbelt because of her bust size. She worries if she were to be in an accident she would end up choking or being strangled by her seatbelt rather than protected by it. Melanie joins Nuala McGovern to discuss, along with motoring journalist Maria McCarthy who has been looking into the issue.
How might the use of AI in recruitment be negatively impacting women's chances of finding work? Listener Valerie joins Nuala to talk about the challenges of being shortlisted for jobs...
2025-08-0457 min
FuturS1 E5 - L'accélération de l'histoireDans cet épisode, nous revenons sur l'invention du transistor qui révolutionne l'usage de l'ordinateur. L'occasion d'évoquer la fameuse Loi de Moore et d'observer une accélération de l'histoire numérique. Et de celles de nos usages? Nous verrons qu'en dépit de cet état de fait, il n'appartient qu'à nous de rester maitres de notre temps. Sources: Wajcman Judy, "Pressed for time: The acceleration of life in digital capitalism"Hartmut Rosa, la technologie est-elle responsable de l'accélération du monde, Le Monde Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast...
2025-05-1903 min
Iconoclast InsightsThe Cult of ProductivityEpisode: The Cult of ProductivityKey Timestamps:- 00:00 - Introduction to productivity culture as a modern religion- 00:56 - The productivity paradox: activity vs. achievement- 03:00 - Historical context: from scientific management to knowledge work- 06:17 - The dark side of optimization: psychological and social costs- 10:11 - The science of effective work: what research actually tells us- 13:21 - Breaking free: alternatives to productivity obsession- 16:18 - Conclusion: reframing our relationship with productivityKey...
2025-04-0918 min
Nociones Comunes¿Es posible automatizar la reproducción social? con Belén LiedoCurso: La revolución estancada
Sesión 4. ¿Es posible automatizar la reproducción social? con Belén Liedo
Lunes, 11 de noviembre de 2024
El feminismo liberal fue capaz de incorporar rápidamente la reproducción social entre sus temas de atención. Para ello, dice Susan Ferguson, desarrollaron numerosas propuestas van desde reclamar que los hombres compartan “las cargas domésticas comunes” hasta imaginar avances tecnológicos vinculados con la limpieza y la eliminación de desechos.
Pero tras las promesa de la automatización, como nos han enseñado Ellen Lupton, Ruth Schwartz Cowan y Judy Wajcman, el tiempo empleado en las tareas dom...
2024-11-111h 29
Agile RabbitCan AI be fair?Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the pioneering research of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. A discussion with world leading scientists and thinkers on Artificial Intelligence and equality.
From benefits to healthcare and the environment, there is a lot that is exciting about AI and its contribution to our society. However, the risks – including algorithmic bias, invasion of privacy, and the power of big business – are well versed. So how can we ensure that data science and AI is working for and not against us?
Hear about how ideas from computer and data scientists – particularly women – are empowering diversity, cooperat...
2024-10-1838 min
Art Is Not a ThingRegendering TechnologySend us a textIn this episode, we look at the historical entanglements of technology and gender. Made in the image of their (often male) designers, technologies end up serving and reproducing patriarchal systems. How can technology finally "undergo a sex change" to overcome its current gender inscriptions? What political imaginaries make that possible, or become possible through feminist approaches to technology? Host Ana-Maria Carabelea tries to answer these questions in conversation with Professor Judy Wajcman and visual and multimedia artist Silvia Binda.Resources:Baltan Laboratories, Technology OtherwiseData Feminism by...
2024-05-3133 min
Intelligence SquaredPower Trip, Part Three: AI and SocietyThere isn't one narrative that fits all around AI. In this episode Carl Miller looks at how the future of artificial intelligence will be one beset by bias, whether that's a recruitment algorithm preferring men to women, racial bias in law and policing, or the failures of facial recognition technology to truly see diversity in an objective light. Featuring Judy Wajcman, Principal Investigator of the Women in Data Science and AI project at The Alan Turing Institute; Henry Ajder, Generative AI & Deepfakes Expert Advisor; and Olivier Sibony, writer, educator and consultant specializing in strategy, strategic decision making and the...
2023-10-2610 minIntelligence SquaredPower Trip: The Age of AIWhen did you first hear of GPT, Claude, DALL-E or Bard? Feels like a while ago, right? In barely over a year AI has permeated our conversations, our places of work and it feels omnipresent in the culture. It also threatens to make some of the pillars of our society redundant. Join researcher and author Carl Miller for POWER TRIP, a brand new podcast from Intelligence Squared, to see where that journey is leading us. Want the future right now? Become a supporter of Intelligence Squared to get all five episodes of POWER TRIP to binge in o...
2023-10-1237 min
Subversivas#59 - Desacelerar: Um desafio individual e coletivo com Michelle PrazeresO que você está fazendo agora, além de ouvir esse podcast? Temos certeza de que está fazendo várias coisas ao mesmo tempo: talvez limpando a casa, dirigindo, fazendo exercícios, lavando a louça…
A nossa sociedade vive num ritmo cada vez mais alucinante, cada vez mais acelerado, estamos cada vez com mais pressa. Quem nunca acelerou o áudio da amiga no WhatsApp que atire a primeira pedra.
A verdade é que essa vida acelerada já tem feito parte da nossa cultura e isso tem inúmeras consequências para nós, tanto como indivíduos quan...
2023-08-151h 13
Somerset House PodcastSoft Life: Time
How can we make time free?
We contemplate different ways of experiencing time beyond the linear, with Somerset House Studios artist Shenece Oretha on transforming time through the practice of listening, sociologist Judy Wajcman on unpicking progress from speed in the digital sphere and psychologist Dr Ruth Ogden on how our experience of time is relational and whether it’s possible to conceive of ‘free time’ in a modern world.
Soft Life: Experiments In New Ways of Being
Soft Life is part of a growing number of movements challenging the way we work. How can soft a...
2023-07-2532 minLatest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoSHORTCAST | The Work of the Future: where will it come from?Join leading economist David Autor in discussion with Judy Wajcman as we explore the relationships between emerging technologies and the future of work in America and beyond.
2021-08-0919 min
LSE: The BallparkSHORTCAST | The Work of the Future: where will it come from?Join leading economist David Autor in discussion with Judy Wajcman as we explore the relationships between emerging technologies and the future of work in America and beyond.
2021-08-0919 minLatest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | AudioSHORTCAST | The Work of the Future: where will it come from?Join leading economist David Autor in discussion with Judy Wajcman as we explore the relationships between emerging technologies and the future of work in America and beyond.
2021-08-0919 minAll items | LSE Public lectures and events | All media typesSHORTCAST | The Work of the Future: where will it come from?Join leading economist David Autor in discussion with Judy Wajcman as we explore the relationships between emerging technologies and the future of work in America and beyond.
2021-08-0919 minLSE IQ podcastSHORTCAST | The Work of the Future: where will it come from?Join leading economist David Autor in discussion with Judy Wajcman as we explore the relationships between emerging technologies and the future of work in America and beyond.
2021-08-0919 min
Shaping the Post-COVID WorldSHORTCAST | The Work of the Future: where will it come from?Contributor(s): Professor David Autor, Professor Judy Wajcman | This is an event shortcast, a digested version of our live online public events series. This event was recorded on May 5th 2021. A full version is available to download on the LSE player.
2021-08-0919 minLatest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoSHORTCAST | The Work of the Future: where will it come from?Join leading economist David Autor in discussion with Judy Wajcman as we explore the relationships between emerging technologies and the future of work in America and beyond.
2021-08-0919 min
Unfinished BusinessThe Accidental TechnologistsToo often, men design the technology that shapes our world but in this episode we’re getting excited about the feminist possibilities of tech.
British Library Curator Polly Russell is joined by Alice Wroe, an Augmented and Virtual Realities Lead at the Atlantic Institute. Together, they’re exploring the diversity issues in the industry and hearing from women who’re working to disrupt the scene.
Judy Wajcman, a Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute, looks backwards to explain why from the 80s onwards women in the UK became less involved in this field.
Looking to the future, we’re donning Virtual...
2021-05-1848 minShaping the Post-COVID WorldThe Work of the Future: where will it come from?Contributor(s): Professor Judy Wajcman, Professor David Autor | How will technological innovation change the workplace? How can we harness technological advances for social benefit? Join leading economist David Autor in discussion with Judy Wajcman as we explore the relationships between emerging technologies and the future of work in America and beyond.
Meet our speakers and chair
David Autor (@davidautor) is Ford Professor of Economics and Associate Department Head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics. He is Co-Director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future and the National Bureau of Economic Research Labor Studies...
2021-05-051h 30
Forum for PhilosophyNot Suitable for WorkÖdül Bozkurt, Brian O’Connor, and Judy Wajcman ask whether we work too much, and if it's making us bad citizens and unhappy humans
2021-03-1600 minForum for PhilosophyNot Suitable for WorkÖdül Bozkurt, Brian O’Connor, and Judy Wajcman ask whether we work too much, and if it's making us bad citizens and unhappy humans
2021-03-1600 minAudio – Forum for PhilosophyNot Suitable for WorkÖdül Bozkurt, Brian O’Connor, and Judy Wajcman ask whether we work too much, and if it's making us bad citizens and unhappy humans
2021-03-1600 min
LSE PodcastsNot Suitable for WorkWhen it comes to work, is less more?
Our panel discuss whether work is making us bad citizens and unhappy humans. Is there something to be said for being idle? Bertrand Russell wrote that "immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous". In more recent times, organisations from Microsoft to the Wellcome Trust have experimented with a four-day week, and advocates argue that shorter working weeks will solve everything from unemployment to the gender pay gap. Brian O’Connor has recently argued that idleness allows us to be truly free.
Meet our speakers and chair
Odul Bozkurt (@Od...
2021-03-1558 minShaping the Post-COVID WorldNot Suitable for WorkContributor(s): Dr Odul Bozkurt, Professor Brian O'Connor, Professor Judy Wajcman | When it comes to work, is less more?
Our panel discuss whether work is making us bad citizens and unhappy humans. Is there something to be said for being idle? Bertrand Russell wrote that "immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous". In more recent times, organisations from Microsoft to the Wellcome Trust have experimented with a four-day week, and advocates argue that shorter working weeks will solve everything from unemployment to the gender pay gap. Brian O’Connor has recently argued that idleness allows us to...
2021-03-0658 min
Talking About Organizations Podcast71: Managerial Behavior -- Melville Dalton (Part 2)Part 2 of our episode on Melville Dalton's "Men Who Manage" is now released -- but this time we add a feminist perspective on managers and management. Gretta, Miranda, and Catherine welcome Judy Wajcman into the conversation to discuss her 1998 book, "Managing like a man: Women and men in corporate management," which provides an interesting contrast to the experiences expressed by the subjects of Dalton's study and whose evidence debunks many of the myths around possible gender differences in how men and women manage.
2020-12-2247 min
Radio Festivaletteratura 2020Giusto in tempo - P.2 - Costruire il tempoOspiti la Balena Bianca, Judy Wajcman e Paolo Pileri. Conducono Costanza Faravelli e Ilaria Rodella dei Ludosofici.Da sempre l'uomo si è ingegnato nella costruzione di strumenti sempre più precisi per tenere traccia dello scorrere del tempo e scandirne il flusso continuo, provando così a imprimere un ritmo alla propria esistenza. A un punto questo ritmo ha subito un'accelerazione vorticosa, sovvertendo quelli che erano i ritmi naturali del succedersi ciclico del giorno e della notte e delle stagioni. Una chiacchierata con Judy Wajcman e la Balena Bianca per fare un po' di luce su questo processo, per capire come sia...
2020-09-1147 min
Eyes Cool PodcastWhat's this Pod? And Black Feminist Critiques of Search and Tech.In this episode we introduce the pod, discuss Safiya Noble's groundbreaking 2018 book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, take a look at the NYPL CulturePass program, and get to know how some new grad students decided on the UW-Madison iSchool!
SHOW NOTES!
Audio clip sources:
Donavan, Joan. (2018, May 15.) Algorithms of Oppression. Data & Society Research Institute.
Retrieved from https://listen.datasociety.net/algorithms-of-oppression/
Elevator Speech (00:09 - 00:39) Titling of book (30:52 - 32:01)
Dr. Joan Donavan (the director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy’s...
2019-09-2951 min
Long NowJudy Wajcman: Time Poverty Amidst Digital AbundanceTechnology’s promise is to “save” time. Its track record in real and psychological terms is often the opposite. A sociologist of science and technology, Judy Wajcman continues her examinations of time pressure and acceleration in the digital age. Her latest work considers how calendar software interacts with the existing anxieties of our digitally driven lives.
Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. Professor Wajcman was one of the founding contributors to the field of the social study of Science and Technology, as well as to studies of gender, work and organizations. Her la...
2019-05-211h 08
Anapus čia ir dabarAnapus čia ir dabar Kur dingsta laikas ?Kur dingsta laikas?; prof. Judy WajcmanPer Visų Šventųjų dieną kviesime klausti kur dingsta žmonių laikas. Šiuolaikinį gerą gyvenimą apibūdina kuo našesnis darbas ir kuo spartesnis gyvenimo būdas, sako sociologė iš Londono ekonomikos mokyklos Judy Wajcman.
2018-11-0145 min
Anapus čia ir dabarAnapus čia ir dabarKur dingsta laikas?; prof. Judy WajcmanPer Visų Šventųjų dieną kviesime klausti kur dingsta žmonių laikas. Šiuolaikinį gerą gyvenimą apibūdina kuo našesnis darbas ir kuo spartesnis gyvenimo būdas, sako sociologė iš Londono ekonomikos mokyklos Judy Wajcman.
2018-11-0145 min
The Long Now FoundationTime Poverty Amidst Digital Abundance - Judy WajcmanTechnology’s promise is to “save” time. Its track record in real and psychological terms is often the opposite. A sociologist of science and technology, Judy Wajcman continues her examinations of time pressure and acceleration in the digital age.
Her latest work considers how calendar software interacts
with the existing anxieties of our digitally driven lives.
Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. Professor Wajcman was one of the founding contributors to the field of the social study of Science and Technology, as well as to studies of gender, work and organizations. Her latest...
2018-03-251h 08
Not Your Mama's GamerEpisode 155: Rebooting Boyhood and Playing Games For GirlsThis week we have a conversation with Carly Kocurek, author of Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade (2015) and Brenda Laurel: Pioneering Games for Girls (2017) and developer of games like Choice Texas. We chat about Al Capone and money laundering, Disney and film preservation, video games (of course), and much more.What We’re Playing:-Overwatch-Ever Oasis-Perception-Lego DimensionsWhat We’re Reading-Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer-Mort (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett-Technofeminism by Judy Wajcman
2017-07-071h 42
UCD Humanities Institute PodcastInterview with Judy Wajcman.Professor Anne Fuchs, Director of the UCD Humanities Institute, talks to Judy Wajcman, Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, as part of the 'Plotting the Future' lecture series.
2017-06-1004 min
Transmedia27. Del nazismo en el cine«Auschwitz representa el límite mismo de nuestro pensar» Sintonizamos con el profesor Javier Moral que nos presenta el libro Antes y después de Auchwitz que ha publicado junto con Pablo Ferrando claves para pensar sobre cine, pintura, biopic, nazismo, holocausto, violencia, burocracia, deshumanización, Nicolas Klotz, Michael Haneke lecturas Antes y después de Auschwitz. Pablo Ferrando y Javier Moral películas La cuestión humana, (La question humaine) Nicolas Klotz, 2007 maestros Walter Benjamin Javier Moral en 100 palabras Decía aquella catedrática de sociología australiana que "la historia se repite y eso le hace escéptica respecto al...
2017-04-2327 min
RSA EventsWhat Should We Do About Job Automation?In the first episode of RSA Radio’s 'Work Shift' series on the changing nature of work Matthew Taylor is joined by: Michael A. Osborne of Oxford University, who’s estimated up to 47% of US jobs could be automated, Ryan Avent from The Economist and author of the recent book 'The Wealth of Humans: work and its absence in the 21st century' and Judy Wajcman, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. Her recent book 'Pressed for Time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalism' explores the relationship between work, technology, time and speed.
To hear...
2017-04-2029 min
RSA RadioWork Shift: What should we do about job automation?Could advances in technology like big data, machine learning and robotics replace jobs faster than new ones can be created? How should we understand the impact of automation on the labour market? And how should government and society respond?
In the first episode in our 'Work Shift' series exploring the big debates in the changing nature of work, Matthew Taylor discusses the impact of automation with: Michael A. Osborne of Oxford University, who has estimated 47% of US jobs could be automated, Ryan Avent from The Economist and author of the recent book 'The Wealth of Humans: work...
2017-04-1300 min
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesThe Future of the ProfessionsIn an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks what are the prospects for employment? In an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks, what are the prospects for employment, who should own and control online expertise, and what tasks should be reserved exclusively for people? The Future of the Professions predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many...
2016-02-161h 00
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesThe Future of the ProfessionsIn an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks what are the prospects for employment? In an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks, what are the prospects for employment, who should own and control online expertise, and what tasks should be reserved exclusively for people? The Future of the Professions predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many...
2016-02-161h 00
Futuropolis by Popular ScienceThinking Outside the CubicleBetween traffic-clogged commutes, high stress jobs, and crappy coffee in the breakroom, the daily grind can be painful.
Luckily, technology is paving the way for jobs you’ll actually be excited to do. Menial tasks like email can be automated. Decision-making can be done with artificial intelligence. And “deep learning” can teach robots to be creative and even generate ideas.
Granted, automation is something Popular Science has been excited (and worried) about for decades, so we turn to our ever-entertaining archives for some historical guidance.
The goal today is to integrate these technologies into the workplace in ways that make o...
2015-12-0226 min
Autumn 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoSocial Media and Social Change: analyzing debates over valuationContributor(s): Professor Walter W Powell | Civil society is challenged to demonstrate its impact. Network and linguistic analyses of webpages reveal intense struggles among governments, businesses, and nonprofits to define effectiveness. Walter W. Powell is Professor of Education, Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering, and Public Policy, Stanford University. Judy Wajcman is Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at LSE. The Department of Sociology at LSE (@LSEsociology) was established in 1904 and remains committed to top quality teaching and leading research and scholarship today.
2015-11-051h 21Autumn 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfSocial Media and Social Change: analyzing debates over valuationContributor(s): Professor Walter W Powell | Civil society is challenged to demonstrate its impact. Network and linguistic analyses of webpages reveal intense struggles among governments, businesses, and nonprofits to define effectiveness. Walter W. Powell is Professor of Education, Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering, and Public Policy, Stanford University. Judy Wajcman is Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at LSE. The Department of Sociology at LSE (@LSEsociology) was established in 1904 and remains committed to top quality teaching and leading research and scholarship today.
2015-11-051h 21
Gearty GrillingsGearty Grilling: Judy Wajcman on the impact of digital technologyContributor(s): Professor Judy Wajcman
2015-06-1106 minGearty GrillingsGearty Grilling: Judy Wajcman on the impact of digital technologyContributor(s): Judy Wajcman | Judy Wajcman, the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology, discusses the impact of digital technology on our lives.
2015-06-1106 min
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and SeminarsPressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital CapitalismJudy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and there are too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are continually being blamed. But isn't the sole purpose of the smartphone to give us such quick access to people and information that we'll be free...
2015-03-261h 27Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and SeminarsPressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital CapitalismJudy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and there are too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are continually being blamed. But isn't the sole purpose of the smartphone to give us such quick access to people and information that we'll be free...
2015-03-261h 27Autumn 2014 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfPressed for Time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalismContributor(s): Professor Judy Wajcman, Genevieve Bell | Judy Wajcman explores why it is that we both blame technology for speeding up everyday life and yet turn to digital devices for the solution. The event marks the publication of Professor Judy Wajcman's new book Pressed for Time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalism. Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at LSE. Genevieve Bell (@feraldata) is Vice President of User Experience Research at Intel Labs. Anthony Giddens is a former director of LSE and a Member of the House of Lords. The Department of Sociology at LSE (@LSEsociology...
2014-11-271h 312014 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoPressed for Time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalismContributor(s): Professor Judy Wajcman, Genevieve Bell | Judy Wajcman explores why it is that we both blame technology for speeding up everyday life and yet turn to digital devices for the solution. The event marks the publication of Professor Judy Wajcman's new book Pressed for Time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalism. Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at LSE. Genevieve Bell (@feraldata) is Vice President of User Experience Research at Intel Labs. Anthony Giddens is a former director of LSE and a Member of the House of Lords. The Department of Sociology at LSE (@LSEsociology...
2014-11-271h 312014 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfPressed for Time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalismContributor(s): Professor Judy Wajcman, Genevieve Bell | Judy Wajcman explores why it is that we both blame technology for speeding up everyday life and yet turn to digital devices for the solution. The event marks the publication of Professor Judy Wajcman's new book Pressed for Time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalism. Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at LSE. Genevieve Bell (@feraldata) is Vice President of User Experience Research at Intel Labs. Anthony Giddens is a former director of LSE and a Member of the House of Lords. The Department of Sociology at LSE (@LSEsociology...
2014-11-271h 31Autumn 2014 | Public lectures and events | VideoPressed for Time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalismContributor(s): Professor Judy Wajcman, Genevieve Bell | Judy Wajcman explores why it is that we both blame technology for speeding up everyday life and yet turn to digital devices for the solution. The event marks the publication of Professor Judy Wajcman's new book Pressed for Time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalism. Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at LSE. Genevieve Bell (@feraldata) is Vice President of User Experience Research at Intel Labs. Anthony Giddens is a former director of LSE and a Member of the House of Lords. The Department of Sociology at LSE (@LSEsociology...
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Start the WeekScience FictionTom Sutcliffe explores our relationship with computer technology and the interplay of alien and familiar in science fiction. Tom's joined in the studio by writer William Gibson, novelist Michel Faber, LSE Professor Judy Wajcman and historian Dominic Sandbrook. How have computer technologies transformed our sense of outer space, cyber space and our own inner space?Producer: Simon Tillotson.
2014-11-2441 minSummer 2010 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfRichard Sennett: The Sociology Of Public Life - Session 2Contributor(s): Professor Craig Calhoun, Professor Bruno Latour, Alan Rusbridger, Professor Judy Wajcman, David Adjaye, Professor Geoff Mulgan, Lord Richard Rogers, Polly Toynbee. | In this exciting half-day conference two panels on 'Public Life and Public Policy' and 'Cities and the Public Realm', discuss these themes in the context of the work of Professor Sennett, the eminent sociologist whose recent books include The Culture of the New Capitalism and The Craftsman.
2010-05-141h 12Summer 2010 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfRichard Sennett: The Sociology Of Public Life - Session 1Contributor(s): Professor Craig Calhoun, Professor Bruno Latour, Alan Rusbridger, Professor Judy Wajcman, David Adjaye, Professor Geoff Mulgan, Lord Richard Rogers, Polly Toynbee. | In this exciting half-day conference two panels on 'Public Life and Public Policy' and 'Cities and the Public Realm', discuss these themes in the context of the work of Professor Sennett, the eminent sociologist whose recent books include The Culture of the New Capitalism and The Craftsman.
2010-05-141h 23Summer 2010 | Public lectures and events | VideoRichard Sennett: The Sociology Of Public Life - Session 1Contributor(s): Professor Craig Calhoun, Professor Bruno Latour, Alan Rusbridger, Professor Judy Wajcman, David Adjaye, Professor Geoff Mulgan, Lord Richard Rogers, Polly Toynbee. | In this exciting half-day conference two panels on 'Public Life and Public Policy' and 'Cities and the Public Realm', discuss these themes in the context of the work of Professor Sennett, the eminent sociologist whose recent books include The Culture of the New Capitalism and The Craftsman.
2010-05-141h 23Summer 2010 | Public lectures and events | VideoRichard Sennett: The Sociology Of Public Life - Session 2Contributor(s): Professor Craig Calhoun, Professor Bruno Latour, Alan Rusbridger, Professor Judy Wajcman, David Adjaye, Professor Geoff Mulgan, Lord Richard Rogers, Polly Toynbee. | In this exciting half-day conference two panels on 'Public Life and Public Policy' and 'Cities and the Public Realm', discuss these themes in the context of the work of Professor Sennett, the eminent sociologist whose recent books include The Culture of the New Capitalism and The Craftsman.
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