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The next phase in the digital revolution: intelligent tools, platforms, growth, employment

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Digital technology determines how (and even whether) people work as much as it determines how information produces economic activity.

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            Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 2
            February 2018
            94 pages
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            DOI:10.1145/3181977
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