How the Internet Rewired Work – and What That Tells Us About AI’s Likely Impact

“The internet did transform work — but not the way 1998 thought…” argues the Wall Street Journal. “The internet slipped inside almost every job and rewired how work got done.”

So while the number of single-task jobs like travel agent dropped, most jobs “are bundles of judgment, coordination and hands-on work,” and instead the internet brought “the quiet transformation of nearly every job in the economy… Today, just 10% of workers make minimal use of the internet on the job —…