Photo: AP One of the most egregious myths about automation is that it is a faceless and elemental force of nature that we puny humans are capable only of scrambling to adapt to. This is technological determinism at its most aggressive, and it’s generally a big fat fallacy.
As I’ve tried to show in these pages, automation is in fact the result of conscious decisions, mostly at the executive and managerial level ( though not always ). There are plenty of choices that shape the general trend of automation, both by employers thinking of deploying automation and employees actually interacting […]
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