| Get Smart(er): The evolution of reskilling | | |  | FRI, JUL 24, 2020 | | | | | | TECH, TRANSFORMATION AND THE FUTURE OF WORK | | | | Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up.
How will workers of the future get the skills they need to succeed? To find out, the XPRIZE Foundation, an organization founded by renown futurist Dr. Peter H. Diamandis launched a competition called "Rapid Reskilling." It incentivized game-changing innovations by offering $5 million to teams which could come up with solutions to quickly reskill under-resourced workers for the digital revolution who might otherwise be left behind.
The pandemic has exacerbated an already big digital divide. Ideally, digital education should be an equalizer providing new access and new opportunity, but does that work in practice? Who benefits and who suffers when learning goes online? Dr. Diamandis joined Jon Fortt in yesterday's @Work Livestream event, where they discussed where we are in the stage of disruption, digital education, transformation, and what 10 years ahead really looks like.
One major takeaway for Diamandis: there's a slow deceptive phase of science and transformation, but there's a point we go from deceptive to disruptive, and that's the test of success in the future of work. Pointing to the fact that for the first time in human history the entire human race has one a singular enemy, everyone is focused on finding solutions. We didn't hear about vaccines or therapeutics, but now we're hearing about hundreds of them. More broadly beyond science and medicine, we're finding transformative solves for the new working world in digital education. XPRIZE's competition is, simply put, trying to make life easier in this new world.
Diamandis explains that the "asteroid" of digital transformation has exposed what's most important: agility. "We've had our Amazon moments ... but when Covid-19 hit, another asteroid hit. It shook the playing field so much that any company teetering on being a decent market product fit fell apart." He continued to share that rapid reskilling is about addressing the exponential tech impact on our job markets, in a pandemic world or otherwise. "But we need a means by which all of us are continually able to upskill what we do." To watch the full interview, click here. | |
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