Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Employment and Unemployment
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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Man vs. Machine: Will Human Workers Become Obsolete?
Updated: May 24 2012,
Author: barrel jason
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Part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman has been showcasing the future of technology from a recent conference run by a California think tank — things such as 3-D printing of prosthetic legs and iPhone heart tests. But the conference also resurfaced an age-old question about the future of human workers.
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