Cloud computing has all the momentum, but we still live in an on-premises world for now

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Thats bad for everyoneBut first.The result is economic inequality more akin to the 19th century than our vision for the 21st.

Cloud computing has all the momentum, but we still live in an on-premises world for now

Gray and Siddharth Suris 2019 book Ghost Workers.and Kate Crawfords recent book on the extractive nature of the AI industry.the human partner is one or more invisible microtask workers being paid tiny amounts to label images.

Cloud computing has all the momentum, but we still live in an on-premises world for now

Phil Jones sets these workers in a larger global context. We have seen these workers lives documented before -- for example.

Cloud computing has all the momentum, but we still live in an on-premises world for now

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what then? Jones chooses optimism: we will have to imagine a new world for ourselves.DevelopmentBest free Microsoft Office alternatives: FreeOffice and LibreOfficeText editors: Sublime Text.

but not everyone may be available on the platform (iPhone also sends SMS on the same app).1Password and Dashlane are great options with useful extra features.

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