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How Many of Your Daily Tasks Could Be Automated?

Harvard Business Review

It has also has inspired scholarship by academics such as Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford University, who estimate that 47% of occupations in the United States could be automated within 20 years, and David Autor of MIT, who argues that the ability of machines to take on human jobs is vastly overstated.

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“Government Entrepreneur” is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

But imagine if the road that led to the Seattle City Council ridesharing hearings this month — with rulings that sharply curtail UberX, Lyft, and Sidecar’s operations there — had been a vastly different one. It still operates today. What would it take? Answer: more public entrepreneurs. Public entrepreneurship is entrepreneurship.

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

Harvard Business Review

These broad components were: Citizens/People Components: the four components in this category are: inclusivity, environment and quality of life, state of talent and the human condition, talent development.