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Submission + - Revisiting the Jobs Artificial Intelligence Will Create (mit.edu)

occidental writes: Authors Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson research show that four soft skills are becoming much more valuable as human-machine collaboration advances. These skills include complex reasoning, creativity, social and emotional intelligence, and sensory perception.

Submission + - Is HTML5 the future of book authorship? (oreilly.com)

occidental writes: Sanders Kleinfeld writes: In the past six years, the rise of the ebook has ushered in three successive revolutions that have roiled and reshaped the traditional publishing industry. Revolution #3 isn’t really defined by a new piece of hardware, software product, or platform. Instead, it’s really marked by a dramatic paradigm change among authors and publishers, who are shifting their toolsets away from legacy word processing and desktop publishing suites, and toward HTML5 and tools built on the Open Web Platform.

Submission + - Do's and Don't's for Changing the Ratio of Women in Tech: How Etsy Did It (oreilly.com)

occidental writes: "When Marc Hedlund took the helm of Etsy’s Product Development & Engineering department, 97% of the engineering department were men. Hedlund realized that in his nearly two decades in IT, he’s hired no more than 20 women for engineering positions. This began to bother him. Especially after his daughter was born."

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