There are a few things that come to mind when we define "work" for the modern citizen:

• Many of us no longer work with physical materials, and just transform information from one thing into another. We are the stewards of the Information Age. This is usually a repackaging, a distillation, finding insights in mountains of data.
• Work is no longer location-based, and the proliferation of remote work highlights what was always important about proximity: communication. For those of us who don't work in construction, physically carrying trusses together, communication is the only necessary medium for information work. This communication happens lingiustically (writing and speaking) and visually (images, graphs, presentations).
• Much of people's occupations is now related to building and instructing machines to do work for us, whether physical or informational. Software developers are an obvious example, but engineers developing assembly lines for Toyota are another. They are still in the business of physical work, but one step removed from it.

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