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Where Digitization Is Failing to Deliver

March 17, 2016 | Frieda Klotz | Data, AI, & Machine Learning

It has become a truism that the pace of work is faster than ever, as digital technologies speed up communication and operational processes in a story of unending progress. But increased speed has not translated into increased rates of productivity growth. Since 2004, growth rates have slowed not just in the US but across the world. Chad Syverson, J. Baum Harris Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, explains what the implications are, and why the benefits of new technologies are not straightforward.

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