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want to reflect on this. Weaving work into our lives
also means you don’t demarcate work and life. They
are just different aspects of life. The fact that you are
going to decouple workplaces from work, the fact
that you are going to decouple workforce from work,
it means that any one of us could be sitting in our
homes and accessing the most prosperous upward
mobile jobs because of the digitization of the world.
That’s the world I want to live in. I want to live in a
world where you don’t get access to work because you
live in rich urban communities. You don’t get access
to work because you have a fancy undergrad degree.
You don’t get access to work because you have skills
which others don’t have. You democratize work
in a way that it is accessible and it has uniformity
irrespective of the cognitive diversity you have, it has
uniformity in access.
“I want to live in a world where
you don’t get access to work
because you live in rich urban
communities. You don’t get
access to work because you
have a fancy undergrad degree.
You don’t get access to work
because you have skills which
others don’t have.”
Today there is an undue advantage if you have STEM
skills. But the world needs more creative and heuristic
skills because the machines are going to take away
the solving of problems. I think we’re going to enter
that world where work, workplaces and workforce
are going to be decoupled and access to work is going
to be uniform and the linear model of education to
work is going to be broken.
The linear model of education to work also created a
divide, and that’s going to change because, like it or
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