It was a refreshing treat, then, to experience #dareconf last week, billing itself as "people skills for digital workers".
A recent O2 report warned that the UK will need an extra 750,000 new "digital workers" by 2017 to keep up with demand.
She didn't have to force the analogy for the point to be made around avoiding burnout and stress, key issues with digital workers.
The latest incarnation – digital workers displacing working-class Latinos and artists from the Mission District who themselves were already gentrifying it – is not radically different.
In the final months before Netset folded in October 2000, the would-be e-commerce moguls sent out e-mail messages to New York Netset customers and people on party lists from the first dot-com boom, when there was an event nearly every night for digital workers eager to relax after a hard day burning venture capital.
None of the supernatural stuff makes much sense, but it allows the director, Gore Verbinski, and his digital workers to indulge a taste for the ghoulish, the hexed, the outré, and the weirdly melancholic — the cursed pirates wither and lose their flesh, only to regain it when they step indoors or when daylight returns.
We're well positioned to make the lives of digital workers better by elevating work to the outcomes that matter".
Like the introduction of the PC, we see a world where every office employee will work alongside digital workers, amplifying human contributions.
Bootstrapping London-based startup GigRove is looking to carve out a niche in the collaborative consumption space as a matching platform for digital workers with itchy feet and startups with a spare room and pressing skills need.
(In a related move today, Amazon is simplifying its Mechanical Turk Web service so that non-coders (i.e., business managers) can set up tasks they want to automatically farm out to digital workers across the world.
