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Only in the movies: why entrusting your company's operations to a piece of software might not be such a bad thing.(international)

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Numerous films have dramatized the idea of a futuristic world where human beings, at some point in the past, entrusted too much of their World to machines. The machines, in true Hollywood style, take over the entire planet and either seek to kill or enslave all of humanity and, without the help of a few good men and women, they would succeed.

All in all, these films give technology a bad reputation.

Despite some of the valid criticisms from theorists about the modern state of living in a mechanized, online world, technology has done some miraculous things in medicine, media and business. In fact, in business, some ...

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