{"id":2521,"date":"2018-01-22T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2018-01-21T18:47:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T02:47:38","slug":"doing-more-better-with-less-andrew-anagnosts-vision-for-the-future-of-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/doing-more-better-with-less-andrew-anagnosts-vision-for-the-future-of-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing More, Better, with Less: Andrew Anagnost\u2019s Vision for the Future of Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard the news? Automation is happening.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it\u2019s been happening for several centuries, which has been cause for both <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/01\/how-automation-will-change-work-purpose-and-meaning\">great rejoicing and great consternation<\/a>. But it\u2019s happening faster now, as more and more of the tasks of our daily and professional lives are handled by machines. That means we\u2019ll have to change how we do things\u2014and how we do our jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his Opening Keynote at AU Las Vegas back in November, Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost dove straight into the roiling waters around the topic to share his vision for the importance and potential of automation in a world with a growing human population and limited natural resources. And he brought out customers and makers who are leading the way into the automated future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2498 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2018\/01\/Opening-Keynote-2017-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2018\/01\/Opening-Keynote-2017-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2018\/01\/Opening-Keynote-2017-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2018\/01\/Opening-Keynote-2017-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2018\/01\/Opening-Keynote-2017.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cEach era of automation, from the first industrial revolution through the present digital era, has created more jobs, not less. Why should we assume the new machine age\u2014the new era of automation\u2014will be any different?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014Andrew Anagnost, Autodesk CEO<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/autodesk-university\/automation-and-the-future-of-work-41b2157908a1\">unpacked Andrew\u2019s keynote<\/a> to understand how automation will enable us to do more, do it better, and do it with less\u2014just like it\u2019s been doing since the dawn of the industrial revolution. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/autodesk-university\/automation-and-the-future-of-work-41b2157908a1\">Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard the news? Automation is happening.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it\u2019s been happening for several centuries, which has been cause for both <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/01\/how-automation-will-change-work-purpose-and-meaning\">great rejoicing and great consternation<\/a>. But it\u2019s happening faster now, as more and more of the tasks of our daily and professional lives are handled by machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4774,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-las-vegas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}