For many, the future of work is scary. But for me, the current way we work, or don’t work, is scarier. In workplaces across the globe, creative people with incredible potential are overwhelmed with information and distractions that paralyze them from doing meaningful work. In many organizations, being busy has replaced productivity as the measure of success. We’re literally working ourselves to death. But there’s hope. With cognitive computing, we can separate the trivial from the significant and allow our workers to do the things that humans do best, like make decisions, be creative, and just have time to think.
