Non Fungible Work.

Much is made at the moment of NFTs - non-fungible tokens, unique and non-interchangeable units of data stored on a blockchain.

It got me thinking about our work relationships. In the industrial era, we have all been educated and trained to make us extremely fungible. The relationship between our qualifications, role descriptions and organisations depends on it. Fungibility is what gives employers power.

What happens then, I wonder, as Internet 3.0 starts to change all that? When blockchains give us the ability to record and validate everything we have done, as employees and good old humans, from our MBA's to the poetry we have written and the adventures we have been on? When technology allows us to create "pop up" project teams formed from the optimum mix of skills, motivations and price, whilst the fungible part of what we do today increasingly gets handed over to algorithms. What might happen, I wonder, to organisations as a result, as offices are not needed and technology replaces ma…