#YuMi and me @ FU.SE 2019

What does a two day immersion into the #FutureOfWork @FU.SE leave behind..?

• First: if the #Future like the #Present will take place on Planet Earth, then there will always be “privileged spots” where the sun shines for the right reasons, where the food is just extraterrestrial and where all things electronic have a different pace: thank you #Milan for welcoming us! Having said that: the privileged insights into #Singapore will prompt a wave of citizenship-requests, no doubt.
• Second: yes: the #FoW is about #People, and per se there is merit in “just being” – but in #Future it is about “doing”. Co-create, shape, drive. It’s #TimetoAct. Use the times when you sit back to replenish and upload your own batteries, or to life-long-learn. Having said that: kudos to Sangheon who shared how the reveal to his teenage son that he better brace himself to life-long-learn led to a reaction of outrage, as all the son could think about is a life composed of a-never-ending cycle of perpetual homework…
• Third: there will be more work than ever, for all of us. It’s the question of whether its output can feed you and “buy" you your own #Present and #Future that needs to be solved. We’re onto that as the consensus grows that the frameworks need to be tackled to allow for #Flexibility and #Security to coexist. With that said: this is the one major challenge Government & Employers & Workers need to get right!
• Fourth: Yes: #WoMen and #Robots will co-exist. They will complement each other. Having an espresso made by #YuMi exemplifies it all: I had to trigger #YuMi. (that is important: take a moment to let that sink in…) #YuMi then was “on a roll” and smoothly and seemingly unstoppably unwrapped every motion necessary to come up with the end product. What struck me: it still took 90 seconds – which I almost used to meditate, clearly to decelerate as I was a “bystander” myself. And my revelation was not about #ArtificialIntelligence, but my own “Thought Processing Capabilities”…: by watching #YuMi and anticipating its next steps, I realized that I had forgotten to place a cup into the cupholder. After a stint of cold sweat and self-doubt at my own #MachineLearning capabilities, I took a leap of Faith and acted by grabbing a cup and placing it at exactly the right angle under the @Nescafé coffee machine. The outcome: success! The espresso was perfect – actually: it tasted as good as thousands of others I have had before. Nothing more to say here…

 So what’s the verdict….? Can't wait for the #FutureOfWork….

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