Automation has been changing the nature of work for hundreds of years. It has replaced manual labor’s most repetitive, intensive tasks. It has steadily accelerated the speed of production, and created new streams of work. But automation isn’t about replacing man with machine or human agent with robot. Rather, it’s about supporting our human abilities and ingenuity – enabling us to create and innovate. Automation is not a project or a tool: join Doug Reeder in exploring the automation ecosystem.