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The Future of Work: Paid to Play?

Posted on by Tommaso De Benetti

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Boredom at work is a big problem. In fact it’s one of the main reasons people complain about their jobs. Imagine if work could be as entertaining as your favourite game and what this could mean for work satisfaction and productivity.

The Problem with Work

Many people believe that work is a boring but necessary requirement for enjoying ‘real life’ outside …

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Google Ngrams: in the beginning was the word search

Posted on by Ville Miettinen

… were good enough to use as Ngrams. So, how about a little help from the crowd? Google already use reCAPTCHA to help decipher old New York Times issues, why not go further? As we know from Digitalkoot, people are amazingly good at reading difficult text and love the chance to contribute to worthwhile projects – especially if they are presented in an entertaining form.

The crowd might even be able to tackle handwritten documents, and correct OCR errors (just try charting use vs ufe to …

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