A recent report from the MIT Work of the Future Task Force finds that companies are still in the "early stages of adoption" when it comes to incorporating new technology into their workflows, while a 2018 Pew Research Center study showed that 65-90% of surveyed people think human-held jobs will be replaced by robots and computers. When and how future workplaces will ultimately change remain unanswered, but Daniel Huttenlocher, inaugural dean of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, has some ideas. He spoke Dec. 2 at the MIT Technology Review Future Compute event in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and discussed the future of machines and the digital workforce. "I think it's very hard to predict the future and particularly hard to predict the positive outcomes of the future," said Huttenlocher, PhD '88. "It's a lot easier to see a technology and say'Gee, that looks like it's going to pose a risk for a particular form of employment' … than to envision some whole new type of work that is very hard to see because of the way that the technology is going to change."