Try predicting the shape of work in the future.
Pessimists see massive unemployment and growing income inequality.
The unavoidable result, they say, of revolutionary technological change, globalization and economic, social and demographic trends. Due to revolutionary structural and technological changes, knowledge will be the most important factor of production in post-job organizations. Often basing their works on anecdotal evidence alone, both pessimists and optimists are portraying a remarkable collection of changes and trends in the world of work. The reality is actually somewhere in the middle. The nature of employment is changing, but not as dramatically as some would like us to think.