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SFI Trustee John Chisholm writes of the tension between technological innovations and their tendency to make jobs obsolete, citing a 2011 McKinsey Quarterly essay by SFI External Professor W. Brian Arthur that predicts the digital economy will soon rival the human economy.

Read John Chisholm's article in Forbes (December 12, 2013)

Read Brian Arthur's essay in McKinsey Quarterly (October 2010)