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That technology can make enormous changes to human society is not in doubt. Where would we be without the invention of the wheel? But deep-seated changes have also happened as a result of advances in computing.
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Hill, R., Hirsch, L., Lake, P., Moshiri, S. (2013). Social, Economic and Political Aspects of the Cloud. In: Guide to Cloud Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4603-2_3
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