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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk. For example, we are only beginning to understand digitization’s effects on unemployment.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.