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With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
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George Packer
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 13
Journalist
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Santa Clara
California
Work
Invisible
Much
Harder
Internet
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Economy
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Humans
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