Quotes About Change

We used to dream about them. We used to do a lot of things.

how you get used to it, how you make the new streets yours.

saying farewell to flesh, farewell to everything caught underfoot and flattened.

Rumplestiltskin names that are always changing, names that no one's ever able to figure out.

The present is a bully, always making us think the molten moment we inhabit is the most alarming ever, while the past tends to slip into that specious category of "simpler times.

But people keep outgrowing their outgrowing

For you, that tree is dead.

Even after emerging from prison and becoming South Africa's first democratically elected president, he continued

You'll like LA a little better once we're outside. Think of New Jersey with palm trees.

If we leave it to professionals themselves to reinvent their workplace, are we asking the rabbits to guard the lettuce?

We are advancing into a post-professional society.

The deeper issue here is that any changes in the work that people do tend to originate at the level of particular tasks involved, and not with the job in general terms.

The Canadian science-fiction writer William Gibson could well have been speaking of technology in the professions when he said: '[t]he future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Technology will be the main driver of this change. And, in the long run, we will neither need nor want professionals to work in the way that they did in the twentieth century and before.

We also see intra-professional friction, when, for example, nurses take on work that used to be exclusive to doctors, or paralegals are engaged to perform tasks that formerly were the province of lawyers.

This is a new division of labour, and traditional professionals sometimes struggle here because they are no longer in the driving-seat.

This automation therefore complements but does not fundamentally change the central way in which services are delivered.

There will be very few jobs for life, much less security, and very little predictability. There will be an emphasis instead on being able to learn, develop, and adapt rapidly as new roles and tasks arise. Different ways of communicating Not many decades ago professionals communicated in three ways—face-to-face, in writing, and by telephone. That was it.

As Voltaire would caution, in reforming or transforming the professions, we should not let the best be the enemy of the good.

Readers may call us radical, but if we can foresee a day when the average laptop has more processing power than all of humanity combined, then it might be time for professionals to revisit some of their current working practices.

Our main claim is that we are on the brink of a period of fundamental and irreversible change in the way that the expertise of these specialists is made available in society. Technology will be the main driver of this change.

there be different and better ways of producing knowledge and making it available in society, methods that might not directly involve the traditional professions at all?

El futuro del servicio jurídico no son Grisham ni Rumpole, (1) ni sus pelucas, sus salas de audiencias recubiertas de madera, sus volúmenes forrados en cuero o su argot jurídico arcaico. Ni siquiera es ya hoy dominante el modelo de abogacía concebido como un servicio de asesoría profesional individualizada, desempeñada por abogados que reciben a sus clientes en sus despachos, ya sean esplendorosos o polvorientos, y ofrecen su orientación jurídica a medida.

todos los Abogados —salvo los que se retiren el día de hoy— son, en realidad, el Abogado del mañana.