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Replacing the Professionals - Richard Susskind

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Season 2016, Episode 300246758

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The 2016 Sir Graham Day Lecture in Ethics, Morality and the Law by British author and scholar Richard Susskind. Technology is not just taking over factory jobs, it's about to do the jobs of lawyers, doctors, journalists and other professionals.

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