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The platform giants are profitable – but create few new jobs

The digital revolution will transform the work force in the 21st Century, just as the industrial revolution. But technology will create a host of new type of jobs and challenges as society moves from muscle and brainpower to data power, according to professors Bo Dahlbom and Ragnar Torvik.
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Asbjørn Eide og hest Horses were outcompeted - and tractor drivers "incompeted"

When the horse was outcompeted by tractors it meant at the same time that the horseman was replaced by a tractordriver. The productivity grew and new workplaces were created instead of the old ones. But when a tractor is outcompeted by an autonomous vehicle, the tractor driver isn't replaced by someone else. That's one of the reasons why the consequences of the digital revolution can be different from the industrial revolution. 

In 1946 there were 246 000 horses in Norway. On the photo from the Norwegian Museum of Hydropower and Industry above, a man called Asbjørn Eide is standing beside his horse. The picture was taken by Daniel A. Eide. 

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