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		mint2 on Jan 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Automation is reaching more companies Remember the rooms full of people who would calculate numbers all day? What happened to those office jobs? This automation is not new.

mateo411 on Jan 19, 2022 [–]

Many of those people were called computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

They were eventually replaced with ... computers.

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