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From the World Economic Forum As the nature of work rapidly changes, what future role will employment play in terms of community identity, personal livelihood and societal purpose?· Dominic Barton, Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company, United Kingdom · Mary Flanagan, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College, USA · Yuval Noah Harari, Professor, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel · Arlie Russell Hochschild, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Amazon.com Inc will open its checkout-free grocery store to the public on Monday after more than a year of testing, the company said, moving forward on an experiment that could dramatically alter brick-and-mortar retail.The Seattle store, known as Amazon Go, relies on cameras and sensors to track what shoppers remove from the shelves, and what they put back. Cash registers and checkout lines become superfluous – customers are billed after leaving the store using credit cards on fileThe idea is that Amazon's machine-learning technology can automatically identify when a product is added to your cart, so you don't have to do it yourself. When you leave the store, Amazon automatically charges your Amazon account..The stores will sell ready-made food, staples like bread and milk, and other grocery products. At 1,800 square feet, the store is relatively small compared with big supermarkets.Reuters