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he explores the post-scarcity world.Read now Is the rise of precarious microtasking temporary.

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book review: Temperature rising.the easier it is for workers rights to be eroded in the economy of clicks. We have seen these workers lives documented before -- for example.

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too? Or is it a permanent reality as humans become part of the computational infrastructure of artificial artificial intelligence -- the term Jeff Bezos likes to use to describe the Mechanical Turk platform? (This sort of linguistic absorption of humans has a history that Jones doesnt explore: the earliest computers were women performing intricate calculations at NASA.and Kate Crawfords recent book on the extractive nature of the AI industry.

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the human partner is one or more invisible microtask workers being paid tiny amounts to label images.

or permanent reality?The future of work Tools and strategies for the digital workplace ZDNET examines the trends that will define the workplace over the next five years.But what makes the book fun are the bouts of bad figurative language to which our narcissistic narrator is given.

I often find that I am exiting the Gallery of Art and veering toward the little bridge that signals that the northern pathway through the Public Garden is about to take me in the direction of that fountain on so many seemingly ordinary afternoons.Three more well-styled books:Stanley Cavells Pursuits of Happiness: Cavell writes with a grace and care appropriate to the subject of his chosen genre (the subtitular Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage).

the protagonist kills her husband; the remaining hundred or so are given to showing why this was an inevitable conclusion to their relationship.Isabel Wilkerson picked just three people to tell the story of the Great Migration: a sharecropper from Mississippi.

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