In the concluding essay of Breaking Smart Season 1, I quoted Seb Paquet's snowclone of Arthur C. Clarke's line about advanced technology being like magic: any sufficiently advanced kind of work is indistinguishable from play. This is not one of those predictions that just happens by itself, like a solar eclipse. It is one of those "future is easier to invent than predict" self-fulfilling prophecies, where it only happens if enough people start believing in it in an interesting way, and somebody actually invents it. Just as the industrial age was full of "workflows" and philosophies of workflows like "Taylorism" and "Agile" and "Lean", the Digital Age needs playflows, and philosophies of playflows. These won't just happen by themselves. They need inventing.
The Playflow Challenge
The Playflow Challenge
The Playflow Challenge
In the concluding essay of Breaking Smart Season 1, I quoted Seb Paquet's snowclone of Arthur C. Clarke's line about advanced technology being like magic: any sufficiently advanced kind of work is indistinguishable from play. This is not one of those predictions that just happens by itself, like a solar eclipse. It is one of those "future is easier to invent than predict" self-fulfilling prophecies, where it only happens if enough people start believing in it in an interesting way, and somebody actually invents it. Just as the industrial age was full of "workflows" and philosophies of workflows like "Taylorism" and "Agile" and "Lean", the Digital Age needs playflows, and philosophies of playflows. These won't just happen by themselves. They need inventing.