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Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google research in China and a top tech investor, sees a huge opportunity to automate routine office work. If your job can be replaced by a program, maybe it's for the best?
After all, John Henry got replaced (well, as the story goes, died, but you know what I mean).
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Just getting rid of so much manual paperwork would be a leap forward.
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I've been writing software that eliminates office donkey work for decades - they seem to find more every year.
The new buzz on the block - software robots to do the repetitive office work. Ffaaaaarrkkk they are scripts you idjits!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It's hopeless. Technology itself will never defeat regulation that generates imaginary work.
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I'm in favour of automating tasks that are amenable to automation, with the caveat that we need social mechanisms to share the benefits, instead of making the rich even more filthy rich and leaving the majority without a means of earning a living.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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making the rich even more filthy rich and leaving the majority without a means of earning a living. " is what's going to happen.  It's been happening for thousands of years - I see no reason for history to abruptly change course now.
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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Rob Grainger wrote: and leaving the majority without a means of earning a living.
I will gladly hire you to sort my shoes for me.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It's sort of ironic. We used to do useful things, then the bean counters came along and all of a sudden we are doing lots of "routine", repetitive "work." Now they want to automate it. Why don't we just fix the problem and get rid of the routine work?
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Marc Clifton wrote: Now they want to automate it. Why don't we just fix the problem and get rid of the routine work?
Easy... that would imply common sense, and that's not so common as false intelligence
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Use of outdated productivity suites prevalent among businesses, Spiceworks study finds. If it ain't broke, keep using it until it is
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Lets see a couple articles earlier about needing more intelligent automation
86 percent of executives surveyed globally feel their companies will soon hit a wall and, by 2020, will need greater automation to get work done.
and 2/3rds of businesses are using software from 10 years ago. I'm sure there is no correlation between articles...
modified 6-Nov-17 18:09pm.
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You really think there are significant new features in later Office versions that aid productivity?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Office 2003 ought to be enough for anybody.
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This is why so many software companies are going to subscriptions.
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I was happiest while using MS Word 6.0, which was prevalent in 1996. Then came Office 7, where things started getting skewed.
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Ramen to that.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Two thirds of businesses still run Office 2007
I think this is because people does not know about the difference between Office 7 and Office 10.
Why people has change their software if their requirement is fulfill with the existing installed version
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The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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The conventional wisdom about running server applications, be it web apps or mobile app backends, is that the future is in the cloud. "To and fro the pendulum throws"
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I've got a few spare minutes, and while I do not like the cloud, I like the arguments put forward in the article even less.
Author wrote: It can’t meet long-term scaling requirements
The argument there is that computing speed and storage-growth outpace network-bandwidth. This does not mean that your applictions suddenly need to consume more bandwidth, and even if it does, it is easier to scale from the cloud than your own server.
... wrote: It’s centralized and vulnerable
Then fire your IT-department. Redundancy is not a new thing. And yes, if both I and your company want to talk over a long distance, we are both forced to use a telephone-line that is operated by a third party.
... wrote: It demands trust but offers no guarantees
It does not demand trust. I'm rather paranoid, and quite happy with my ProtonMail. Yes, the Spanish blocked some Catalonian websites, but as stated in the news the move did not have much impact.
An obvious expert wrote: It makes us — and our data — sitting ducks
No, lazyness and money-restrictions do that. Enough companies running outdated software and not paying any attention to possible threats. Feel free to prove me wrong, my ProtonMail is one of those ducks - happy hunting. The argument is also something that is not cloud-specific, as a lot of computers that are hooked up to the net are vulnerable.
As a bonus;
Article states: it would be nice to keep the internet as free and open as it was intended to be
With most Western governments moving to intercept my communications?
That is also the point the author does not want to make; the biggest threat to privacy and overall access to the internet is the government 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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"Conventional wisdom"? Who's wisdom is that?
90% of the professionals I work with would never have anything to do "the cloud". I do know a couple of people who continue to use cloud services out of sheer laziness.
Our PBX blocks incoming phone calls from Google Voice.
Our Exchange server adds a disclaimer to incoming email that came through gmail that the contents of this message are COMPROMISED. This email has been read by Google and it's contents are to be considered exposed to the public.
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This is probably the easiest headline to snark I've seen in months.
"What goes around comes around."
"It's like deja-vu all over again."
"history repeats itself first as tragedy second as farce"
Or as proof that nothing has changed in over 2000 some odd years:
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven"
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We inquired about people’s relationships with their connected devices, like smart TVs, Fitbits, and routers. Questions ranged from “What connected devices do you own?“ to “What is your biggest fear as we move toward a more connected future?” "The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
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Single-player campaign, ranked multiplayer available free of charge. "I'll be in my bunk"
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This game will be dropped within the next year. No one plays it anymore. StarCraft who? 
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There seem to be 300,000 active players (on a quick search). Extremely popular in South Korea I believe.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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