april 2017

Episode 42 – About Digital Office Groningen, with Nick Stevens

Nick Stevens returns to the podcast to tell about his new role as Chief Digital Officer (CDO). The city of Groningen is currently facilitating “an experiment towards the future” as our guest describes it. What it is and what the outcome exactly will be is unclear, but when we take the technological changes and its impact on the labor market for example, it will undoubtedly be necessary. How do we get people ready to live in this digital world?    Why a digital office? Stevens sees some unsettling ripples on the horizon. “Let’s just imagine the robots are here and they do all…