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How We’ll Really Feel if Robots Take Our Jobs

Harvard Business Review

The “enormous doom and gloom” about “botsourcing,” as Harvard Business School’s Michael Norton puts it, is part of the reason he and Kellogg School of Management’s Adam Waytz set out to study the emotions surrounding the question of robots in our workforce.

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On Undo's Undue Importance

Harvard Business Review

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. Back in 1982 Norton Utilities launched its "Unerase" product. The feature? Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. It was a big deal. Undo was new again a few years later.