Public Lecture Thursday 10th October Arts 1 (206) room 220 4 – 5.30pm While there is general agreement we are embarking on a far-reaching social and economic transformation implicating new technologies, there is little agreement about how to understand it. In this lecture I use an historical-sociology that is sensitive to time and inequalities of wealth, status and symbolic knowledge, to talk about the co-evolution of human consciousness-technology. It is argued that we are entering a ‘Techno-Axial Age’ marked by new personal and collective relations enabling radical and novel cognitive...

Brought to you by THE CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH RESEARCH NETWORK and THE SOCIAL FUTURES RESEARCH HUB DATE: Friday 11 October, 2-4pm LOCATION: ClockTower 039 (105-039) As new technologies such as Robotics and Artificial intelligence continue to grow in influence the very nature of what work means and how it is organised in the future will be radically reconfigured. Not only are new technologies reshaping the types of jobs available but also new practices such as ‘crowdsourcing’ and ‘gig work’ in the ‘sharing economy’ are reinventing and reconstructing the relationship between employers/...