What does the #futureofwork really mean? A refocus on building skills.

I have been reading and researching what has been written about the future of work and how we can prepare and be ready to adapt. I am going to use a gross over-simplified definition of business as demand meeting supply to explain what I have learned. In this simple definition, I look back at talent shortages or surpluses I have lived through and see them all as moderate adjustments of talent demand and supply. For example, we needed fewer transcriptionists and couldn't hire enough customer service representatives. What is different in this latest shift is that the scale of innovation is spectacular in terms of what technology can perform, and the pace of this shift is so much faster than what we have experienced before.