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so there's two general perspectives out there that I think are useful for understanding how that automation versus
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augmentation debate might be going one comes from MIT economists donon asoglu and David otter it's the task-based
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approach we think of a job as a bundle of tasks and we can augment or automate these tasks within those bundles which
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will change the bundles over time another comes from Folks at University of Toronto and Stanford Tim bresnahan at
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Stanford A J agarwall Avi Goldfarb and Joshua Gans at University of Toronto arguing that the change actually happens
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at the system level so when there's enough of a big deal something to invest
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in something to change what we do is reconfigure the entire system and that new system has got different labor
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demands or different Capital demands so by tracking which companies are making large changes making big Investments
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then reconfiguring what they do we can start to understand how those new systems have different supply and demand
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Dynamics I think both of those Frameworks are useful for different kinds of questions though increasingly
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I'm becoming convinced that the systems view has more to say