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Technological Change

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With today's incredible [blank] of technological change, a lot of age-old human skills may be getting left behind or [blank] out. It's not just that if you buy a laptop today it's obsolete within [blank] than a year and the rest of the world has moved on; it's more that, as workers get more expensive and equipment gets cheaper, companies are spending more on machines rather than people. Fewer people, therefore, are being [blank] in necessary skills.

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With today's incredible rate of technological change, a lot of age-old human skills may be getting left behind or dying out. It's not just that if you buy a laptop today it's obsolete within less than a year and the rest of the world has moved on; it's more that, as workers get more expensive and equipment gets cheaper, companies are spending more on machines rather than people. Fewer people, therefore, are being trained in necessary skills.
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