TechnologyReview :: If you think your current boss is a drag, imagine being directed by a piece of software. - Why hire a knowledge worker when a swarm of low-skilled laborers will do?
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An experiment being conducted by an alliance of journalists and computer scientists aims to combine the distributed human brainpower of Amazon's small-task outsourcing engine, Mechanical Turk, with a software boss pre-programmed with all the logic required to stitch myriad discrete human-accomplished tasks into something resembling the work of a single person.
(Short note: I don't believe that technology can be a replacement.)
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