“My grandfather wouldn’t recognize
what I do as work”
Tim O’Reilly
Ignite Google I/O
May 19, 2016
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“My grandfather
wouldn’t recognize what
I do as work.”
-Hal Varian
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The more things change, the more they stay the same
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Low wage employers like McDonalds and Walmart are the
new sweatshop, but something different is happening in tech
McDonalds 440,000 employees, 68 million monthly users
Snapchat ~300 employees, 100 million monthly users
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These are the workers
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Programmers are actually managers
Every day, you are
inspecting the performance
of your workers and giving
them instruction (in the form
of code) about how to do a
better job
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There are other companies where programs are
managers, while many of the workers are human
At
companies
like Uber
and Lyft,
algorithms
tell people
what to do
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Those programmers are actually managers
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“God did not make being an
auto worker a good job!”
David Rolf, SEIU
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Those programmers are actually managers
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Those programmers are actually managers
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“My grandfather
wouldn’t recognize what
I do as work.”
-Hal Varian
@timoreilly #NextEconomy
@timoreilly #NextEconomy
@timoreilly #NextEconomy
@timoreilly #NextEconomy
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It’s time to build technology, and companies,
as if people matter!