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Why technological progress can feel like personal erasure

I have been maintaining the same equipment for twelve years and I know every sound it makes but now they want to replace everything with automated systems.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The machines you know inside and out are being replaced, and your hard-won knowledge no longer matters.

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