Ethan Mollick: Industrializing knowledge work will be as disruptive as industrializing physical labor
emollick · x · 2026-09-22
Ethan Mollick argues that the industrialization of knowledge work will be as disruptive a shift as the industrialization of physical labor was. Just as craft fields were once pressured to produce volumes of standardized product with less of the craft that made work interesting and meaningful, the same dynamic is now hitting knowledge work.
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