Future of Work, Switched On Emotional Awakening, Screen Cleaning

Future of Work, Switched On Emotional Awakening, Screen Cleaning

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 7, Episode 41

  • Feb 16, 2018 5:00 pm
  • 2:27:24 mins

The Real Future of Work (20:19) David Weil, Ph.D., is Dean and Professor at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He is the author of the book The Fissured Workplace. The workforce is changing and not necessarily for the better. David Weil has spent the past few decades researching and documenting the changing nature of work, and in 2013, President Barack Obama nominated him to head the division at the Department of Labor that oversees the government’s laws on wages. David Weil explains the Future of Work. Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening (1:08:09) John Elder Robison is a New York Times Best Selling Author for his book, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's. Imagine living without one of your senses and one day it’s switched on. Suddenly you can hear for the first time or see color. John Elder Robison knows what that feels like, but John wasn’t blind or deaf before this miraculous change. Mr. Robison has Asperger’s, a form of Autism, that left him without the ability to read emotions, and he’s here to talk about how his life suddenly changed. John Robinson shares his book Switched On.  Jeff Simpson - Screen Cleaning (1:37:30) Jeff Simpson talks about movies and TV helping you find family-friendly options.

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