This article focuses on the book "The Future of Work," by Thomas W. Malone. Malone believes that it's vital to know the past in order to predict the future. Malone asks readers to imagine that they are loyal subjects of King Carlos IV of Spain in 1795. Malone skillfully uses that introduction because it parallels what he believes to be a current workplace revolution. Like the Spaniards, people are witnessing a significant shift in people's attitudes about control and power. Decision making is being pushed away from centralized hierarchies into what Malone calls loose hierarchies. He defines the term as a structure in which most decisions are delegated to lower levels of an organization.