Ethan Mollick: industrializing knowledge work will be as disruptive as industrializing labor
ZeroStateReflex · x · 2026-09-23
Ethan Mollick argues that the industrialization of knowledge work will be as disruptive as the industrialization of physical labor: once craft fields face pressure to mass-produce standardized output with less of the craft that made work meaningful, the interesting parts get squeezed out. A follow-up asks how to preserve crafts people no longer want to practice.
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