--- title: Five Best: Automation Will Reshape Our Workforce description: Automation will reshape our workforce, the protests in Iran won’t change its foreign policy and more. canonical: https://time.com/5092757/automation-will-reshape-our-workforce/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-08T17:00:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:14.636Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Automation Will Reshape Our Workforce og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5092757/automation-will-reshape-our-workforce/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Automation Will Reshape Our Workforce twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Automation Will Reshape Our Workforce by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 8, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 8, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Automation will reshape our workforce. Here’s how it threatens American politics.**](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/05/robots-politics-automation-technology-216220) By Ryan Avent in _Politico_ **2\.** [**The protests in Iran won’t change its foreign policy.**](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/iran/2018-01-05/why-protests-wont-change-irans-foreign-policy?cid=int-lea&%3Bpgtype=hpg) By Ariane M. Tabatabai in _Foreign Affairs_ **3\.** [**Cities need urban mobility data — everything from Uber rides to bike sharing usage. Here’s how they can get it.**](https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/who-owns-urban-mobility-data/549845/) By David Zipper in _CityLab_ **4\.** [**Net neutrality is dead. The battle to resurrect it is just beginning.**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609840/net-neutralitys-dead-the-battle-to-resurrect-it-is-just-beginning/) By Martin Giles in _MIT Technology Review_ **5\.** [**Cities can embrace innovation without sacrificing public health. Here’s how.**](https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/how-cities-can-embrace-innovation-without-sacrificing-public-health-and-saf) By Jennifer Bradley in _NextCity_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5092757/automation-will-reshape-our-workforce/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5092757/automation-will-reshape-our-workforce/"},"headline":"Automation Will Reshape Our Workforce","datePublished":"2018-01-08T17:00:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:14.636Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5092757/automation-will-reshape-our-workforce/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Iran","Innovation","Public Health","Data topic","Net neutrality","automation"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5092757/automation-will-reshape-our-workforce/","name":"Automation Will Reshape Our Workforce"}}]}] ```