50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
Spreadsheet
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18 May 2019
11 minutes
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A grid on a computer screen took the world of accountancy by storm in the early 1980s, making many accounting tasks effortless. But should we consider this 'robot accountant' more carefully? As Tim Harford explains, the digital spreadsheet is a 40-year-old example of what automation could do to all of our jobs.
