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Creating More Work For Ourselves

“[Luis von Ahn – inventor of the captcha] says that about 200M captchas are typed every day. He was proud of that until he realized it takes about 10 seconds to type them, so his invention is wasting 500,000 hours per day.”- David Weinberger

I wonder if Samuel Segal feels similarily.

Author Garrick van BurenPosted on April 27, 2010Categories General

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