Future jobs article in the Guardian

I’ve just had a piece published by the Guardian science blog, about the future jobs report by Fast Future. You can read the article here. It’s based on my reports in this blog: Nano-medics of the future: so what? Update: nano-medics of the future Nano-medics of the future: so everything! Future jobs report: the views [...]

Future Jobs Report: Response from Rohit Talwar

Here’s a response from Rohit Talwar of Fast Future, to criticisms of their recent “Shape of Jobs to Come” report outlined in this blog, EvidenceMatters, HolfordWatch and Gimpy’s Blog. I have included the entire response unedited. Personally, I don’t feel the main criticisms are adequately addressed. For example, he talks of “weak signals”, where there [...]

Future Jobs Report: The views so far…

Following my original post on the future jobs report last week, a few other blogs have published their views on the quality of research conducted by Fast Future. The Nanoclast picked up on my original post, while EvidenceMatters conducted their own detailed investigation into the social science methods used in the report. Though I focussed [...]

Nano-medics of the future: So Everything!

Earlier this week I wrote about the shockingly bad “shape of jobs to come” report commissioned for the government funded Science: So What? So Everything campaign. When an organisation set up for the promotion of science allows itself to be associated with a report they either haven’t read or haven’t understood, it indicates a fairly [...]

Update, nano-medics of the future…

“If a deadly virus starts spreading rapidly, few countries, and few people, will be prepared. Nurses will be in short supply. And as death rates rise, and neighborhoods are shut down, someone will have to guard the gates.” This may be familiar to those of you who looked at the Science: So What page on [...]

Nano-medics of the future: So What?

This week, I stumbled upon a page on the Science: So What? So Everything website describing some of the exciting career paths we might be able to follow using future technology. It’s based upon a report called “The shape of jobs to come” by consultants at Fast Future Research, and related stories have been reported by the BBC,  The [...]