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[ NNSquad ] As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living
As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living
http://j.mp/TaeSK4 (New York Times)
The boom in apps comes as economists are debating the changing
nature of work, which technology is reshaping at an accelerating
speed. The upheaval, in some ways echoing the mechanization of
agriculture a century ago, began its latest turbulent phase with
the migration of tech manufacturing to places like China. Now
service and even white-collar jobs, like file clerks and data
entry specialists or office support staff and mechanical drafters,
are disappearing. "Technology is always destroying jobs and
always creating jobs, but in recent years the destruction has been
happening faster than the creation," said Erik Brynjolfsson, an
economist and director of the M.I.T. Center for Digital Business
... For many of the developers not working at traditional
companies, moreover, "job" is a misnomer. Streaming Color Studios,
a game developer, did a survey of game makers late last year. The
252 respondents, while not a scientifically valid sample and
restricted to one segment of the app market, indicated what many
people had suspected: the app world is an ecology weighted heavily
toward a few winners.
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