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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. At risk (kind of). Department of Commerce, the U.S. In the long haul.

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Empowering Digital Societies - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

As part of a joint research project with Microsoft, Estonia moved the official digital record of land ownership to the cloud. A collaborative research project has launched in New Zealand to explore some of these larger questions of how governments can harness digital technologies to develop smarter, more inclusive societies.

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

Harvard Business Review

Collectively, the D5 nations serve two important purposes for our project: They give us a way to construct a global benchmark that can be used to assess D5 nations and other countries, and they each offer a case study and model for what smart can look like.