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Intelligent Tools and Digital Platforms: Implications for Work and Employment

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We must proceed in a way that allows citizens, in their multiple roles as workers and consumers, to participate in shaping the future, not just allowing it to happen to them. It is not a matter of robots coming, but rather one of how to direct the evolution of platforms and the development and deployment of intelligent tools and systems.

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  1. Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 716 Barrows Hall, 2234 Piedmont, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    John Zysman

  2. Department of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Martin Kenney

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John Zysman, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, CA, USA.

Martin Kenney, University of California, Davis, USA; Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, CA, USA.

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Zysman, J., Kenney, M. Intelligent Tools and Digital Platforms: Implications for Work and Employment. Intereconomics 52, 329–334 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-017-0699-y

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