Digital Bricklayers

A new category of work is emerging: the digital factory job

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"Take a company name (say, Joe's Diner), think up several words that describe it (restaurant, dinner, burgers), come up with other words about its location (Cincinnati, downtown, Main Street), then create more than 200 combinations of those words and write six- to eight-word sentences associated with each combination."

Repeat with 850 employees, 24 hours a day, over three shifts.

 

These digital bricklayers are building the new information pyramid. In Madras, India

Business Week [businessweek.com]