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WHEN THE MARINES decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid
"tiltrotor" called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream
machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the
Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover
with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an
airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The
Marines saw it as key to their very survival.
The convergence of Algorithms, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency has the potential to fundamentally disrupt the current world of work. This book investigates the effects of this on the worker, the organisation and the economy, by considering a future where the traditional power relationships between workers and firms no longer apply. Using the term "Bitwork" to define this future world of work, the book proposes the idea of the Bitworker who is highly flexible, holds multiple roles, and has multiple incomes. Chapters consider the potential winners and losers of this technological pivot by exploring implications such as: the expanding array of currencies; training and education; retirement and loyalty; profit and power within organizations; economic policy. The book's comprehensive recommendations on how workers, organisations and nation states will need to adapt to prosper in this new world, provide a useful survival guide for researchers, practitioners and policy makers working on behavioural economics, economic policy and the future of work.
It is 1985. Well respected lawyer David Fraser has been tipped as the next head of Britain's Security Service, MI5. Not only is David a man who deals in dark secrets, he has one of his own, a secret so damning that if it is uncovered it will destroy him. David's father dies. David has a hip injury from when he was young and he enlists his brother's help to clear the family house. What they find in the attic threatens to turn David's world on its head. In an attempt to conceal the truth from his brother he falls deeper and deeper into a tangle of deceit and lies that take him back to his teen years, to the time when his parents encouraged him to befriend Thomas Todd, a boy who had access to weapons. At first David is impressed. He soon realises that Todd can be unpredictable and violent. This novel is suitable for young adults upwards.
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