SECTION: Features
Some worry that digitization leads to replacement of human labor in healthcare, thus leading to a decline in the demand for medical personnel's skills. What lessons can we draw from previous waves of automation?
By Sofia Hernnäs, April 2020
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As technology and healthcare continue to commingle, data work is being redistributed as powerful professions discard unwanted tasks and other occupations are transformed.
By Claus Bossen, April 2020
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What sociology and ethnography can teach us about designing the workplace technologies of tomorrow.
By Christine T. Wolf, April 2019
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SECTION: Feature: Augmenting people
If we let machines put us out of work, it will be because of a failure of imagination and the will to make a better future!
By Tim O'Reilly, December 2016
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SECTION: Features: On demand labor
As we dream of automation, we always need people to calibrate and train what we automate. Automation has hidden human faces.
By Lilly Irani, December 2016
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SECTION: Feature: Designing the workplace of the future
We already know algorithms can make our lives and our work more efficient, but how can we go beyond that to create trustworthy, fair, and enjoyable workplaces in which workers can find meaning and continuously learn?
By Min Kyung Lee, December 2016
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Dr. Raffaello D'Andrea speaks at length about what it takes to build commercially viable robotic systems, the future of autonomous machines, the role humans will play in this future, and how we can best prepare for it.
By Nidhi Rastogi, Adrian Scoică, December 2016
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