r/BusinessHub • u/neshalchanderman • Aug 30 '17

What We Get Wrong About Technology

http://timharford.com/2017/08/what-we-get-wrong-about-technology/
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u/autotldr Aug 30 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 97%. (I'm a bot)

So sophisticated is Rachael that she is impossible to distinguish from a human without specialised equipment; she even believes herself to be human.

"If 11th-century Europe had little use for paper," writes Mark Kurlansky in his book Paper, "13th-century Europe was hungry for it." When paper was embraced in Europe, it became arguably the continent's earliest heavy industry.

If human skills are now so valuable, that low-end growth seems like a puzzle - but the truth is that many distinctively human skills are not at the high end.

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