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Tom Austin
VP & Gartner Fellow
17 years at Gartner
41 years IT industry

Tom Austin, vice president, has been a Gartner fellow for a decade. He is chief of research for social software, collaboration, communications, information management, business intelligence and high-performance workplace (HPW) research. Read Full Bio

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Autor of MIT and the impact of IT on employment

by Tom Austin  |  September 22, 2010  |  1 Comment

My most recent post on the social and moral obligations of the IT industry has apparently generated zero comment. 

Cynic that I am, I would ordinarily assume no one cares. Perhaps David Autor’s piece on the Brooking Institution site will generate some dialog. In the full PDF, he talks about the role of technology in the gutting of the middle class world wide.

Who wants to talk about the relationship between automation of routine tasks and reduction in the demand for labor?

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