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Re: Re: Re: Economist magazine points to decline of tech writing
Subject:Re: Re: Re: Economist magazine points to decline of tech writing From:David Renn <daverenn08 -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> Date:Sun, 4 Jan 2015 17:28:50 -0500
So will I have a job in 15 years or should I start aggressively gambling?
On Jan 4, 2015 5:20 PM, "Nancy Allison" <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:
> Yes, I think that's still in human territory, although the bean
> counters wish it weren't so. When, oh when will they be able to replace
> us with algorithms!!
>
> On 01/04/15, Robert Lauriston<robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Abstracting information from digital content (which algorithms aren't
> very good at yet anyway) is nothing like interviewing SMEs, which is
> what William Sherman is talking about.
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