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Technology-driven changes in work and employment

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Even when surrounded by ubiquitous computing, humans should be encouraged to do what they do better than machines.

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              Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 12
              December 2017
              91 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/3167461
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