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Charles sent an interesting article from the NY Times, worth a read Watch Out Workers, Algorithms Are Coming to Replace You — Maybe Over the past five years, the Israeli author and historian Yuval Noah Harari has quietly emerged as a bona fide pop-intellectual. His 2014 book “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” is a sprawling account …