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1591847206 (ISBN13: 9781591847205)

Humans Are Underrated: Proving Your Value in the Age of Brilliant Technology Hardcover | Pages: 248 pages

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From the bestselling author of Talent is Overrated, an extensive look at the essential human skills that can never be replaced by technology.

In the economy of a few years from now, what will people do better than computers? Technology is rapidly invading fields that it once could not touch, driving cars better than humans do, predicting Supreme Court decisions better than legal experts, packing boxes, identifying faces, scurrying around hospitals delivering medications, all faster, more reliably, less expensively than people. In a world like that, how will we and our children achieve a rising standard of living?

The real issue is what we humans are hardwired to do for and with one another, arising from our deepest, most essentially human abilities—empathy, social sensitivity, storytelling, humor, forming relationships, creativity. These are how we create value that all people hunger for, that is unique and not easily quantified.

Individuals and companies are already discovering that these high-value abilities create tremendous competitive advantage—more devoted customers, stronger cultures, breakthrough ideas, more effective teams. They’re discovering also that while many of us regard these abilities as innate traits—“he’s a real people person,” “she’s naturally creative”—it turns out they can all be developed and are being developed in far-sighted organizations from software firms to the U.S. Army to the Cleveland Clinic. To a far greater degree than most of us ever imagined, we already have what it takes.

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Title	:	Humans Are Underrated: Proving Your Value in the Age of Brilliant Technology
Author	:	Geoff Colvin
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 248 pages
Published	:	August 4th 2015 by Portfolio (first published August 1st 2015)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Business. Science. Technology. Psychology. Economics. Self Help

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It's hard for me to say that this book is disappointing as I had low expectations coming in, but it fell below these. The book breezes over the technical aspects of AI, preferring to focus on the future social impact of AI and potential coping mechanisms. However, the author mostly just proposes one or two ideas and repeats them in different iterations. The lack of original thinking grows apparent very quickly as does the generally superficial level of the research. Midway through I thought I

The world is changing fast. Computers are expanding their capacity to handle cognitive processes faster than humans have a chance of doing, and we can't keep up.Geoff Colvin asks the question, "Why should we?" Were humans made to work that mimics and rivals computational power and processes, or is there some other kind of work that computers will never imitate?This book focuses on the skills that computers are not able to recreate, and which not only will remain valuable in the changing economy

Geoff Colvin, the senior editor-at-large at Fortune wrote one of my favorite books of 2008 Talent is Overrated. Now hes written what will clearly be one of my favorites of 2015.This book took me on more of an emotional roller coaster ride than any great novel or whodunit. The first two chapters were informative and scary telling just how fast computers (and technology-cousins robots of all sorts) are improving and what they can already do that you may not be aware of.Then the book takes a

If you read a lot on the topic, not a lot new. What I did like was what the author brought to the book for those who hadn't already read a lot on the topic.Right to the point - Humans are empathy machines who tell stories. Computers are logical and factual. Therefore the future jobs for humans are in empathy and storytelling.Before I returned the book to the library, I wish I made note of one thing that hit me, and that was he was't referring to the current economic era as the knowledge era -

It has good insights about our future coexisting with machines smarter than us. I consider interesting how the author argues our brain evolved at this high cognitive level mainly because we needed to interact socially. I don't really think it is completely accurate but it makes you think. Although it is kind of redundant at the end, it is worth reading.

One of the five best books I read in 2015The key insight of this book is that human brains evolved for social interaction. What Colvin does is spin out the implications of that insight, with excellent real life examples. This book is a wonderful counterpoint to the books which attempt to predict the future and also to the ones who claim that computers will never be able to do what humans do. The strength of the analysis is that you will get an idea of how you might adapt effectively to a rapidly

A little slow to get started, Colvin spent so much time talking about how computers are putting us all out of work, I was expecting a pitch for basic income.The balance of the book does a good job of showing the power of empathy in the new economy, especially for large, dynamic organizations. The latter chapters are thought provoking, especially for anyone leading distributed teams.