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Lawyers fighting

Information processing, lawyers and technology…

Librarians! Journalists! Read about the struggle!

…into the case studies now

Hey, its an will-AI-take-professionals-jobs section (1988). The predictions were pretty good afaic: No, but expert systems remain important; professions who are very systemic might be in danger, professions that focus on creative or otherwise vague aspects are pretty save (Now, this was written long before AI text/image generators, but I assume even these are more a danger for stock photo production)

Slooooow progress, and rather dry in its writing style, but it keeps being interesting.

Its good but its also very slow to read (despite the language not being very difficult)

How to split up work

Doctors and Lawyers have sub-professions they rule over; rarely a professions area gets actually split between two equal-in-power professions.

(So, designers, where is your TV show?!)

more struggles. One Mistake and your profession might go bust! Also, it is very useful to have a TV show to teach the public that your profession is awesome.

Very interesting, I highlight a lot of stuff. Working in a minor and fought-over profession myself there was so many insightful ideas and familiar experiences put in a new light.

So main hypothesis is that a lot of the changes within professions can be explained by power struggles among professions.

Research on professions and their turf wars, I guess. Came here via communicative construction of organizations.