Living Zoku Edition 17: Can robots be trendy?

TUESDAY 4 JUNE 2019 | EDITION 17

Did you know the average person loses 15 socks per year? That’s 1.3 socks a month or 1,264 over a person’s lifetime. If you’ve lost a sock or two here at Zoku, chances are it’s in the laundry room where you left it. Either that or our Sidekicks are making sock puppets again.

YOUR WEEKLY PRESCRIPTION

THE INDUSTRIES MOST LIKELY TO BE TAKEN OVER BY ROBOTS

3-minute read | World Economic Forum

We tend to underestimate the complexity of people’s jobs and consider our own work too difficult for machines. That’s why the World Economic Forum has ranked which industries are most likely to be automated. Robot chefs, anyone?

3 BIG CHALLENGES TO IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF WORK

8-minute read | Fast Company

What will your job look like in 5 years? How about 10 years or 20 years? Technology is changing the way we work faster than ever, and everybody wants to believe they have the answer to where everything is heading. This article highlights 3 important reasons that forecasting the future of work has never been more challenging.

YOUNG LEADERS ARE SHAPING THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABLE FASHION

6-minute read | World Economic Forum

Our passion for fashion fuels a global industry that, on its own, accounts for 10% of the world’s carbon footprint. Here are some of the surprising ways the next generation of fashion entrepreneurs are solving the sustainability challenge. But what we really want to know is: How many socks does it take to globally warm a carbon foot?

MEET THE COMMUNITY

Each week, we profile a Zoku community member - hit reply if you'd like to be featured!

Dean Medina is a musician, intimate events organiser, copywriter, and a bringer-of-people-together-er. He is the founder of Amsterdam Music Project, and as the organiser of The Rooftop Jazz Club and the Friday After Work Sessions at Zoku, you'll certainly run in to him in our Social Spaces.

What brought you to Amsterdam?

Escape from North America, explore Europe. Found love, moved back home to Canada, returned to Amsterdam for love, and then fell in love with the city and now have a little Dutch baby.

What path has your career taken?

I've been all sorts of things: a singer of Singing Telegrams (dressed up as Elvis, a sailor, a cop - maybe they expected something else from me now that I think about it...); driver of beer bicycles in Amsterdam (don't ask), an extra in TV and film, community development, marketeer (ugh), storytelling and copywriting, and now music experiences.

What does home mean to you?

Home is when I feel most connected to the people around me and my surroundings. It could be after living somewhere for 10 years, or an hour spent with complete strangers, in an new land, connecting over good food, stories and music.

Which book have you gifted the most, and why?

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. I'm a father now, and it's just an awesome book about rebellious characters from history - we need a bit more rebel in all of us! Might as well start young :-)

Amsterdam Music Project