The 1960s cartoon The Jetsons got three things about the future very wrong: the place of women in the workforce, how much we will work, and where we work.
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Professor of English, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Principal Research Consultant in Strategic Foresight, CSIRO
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Workplace Futures Research Lead, Centre for the New Workforce, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Plant and Soil Biology, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Labour and Globalisation, University of Hertfordshire
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Research Fellow in Geography, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Principal Scientist, Strategy and Foresight, CSIRO
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Reader in Contemporary Literature and Medical Humanities, University of Glasgow
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Visiting Researcher, University of Oxford