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By Elayne Fluker | Published February 7, 2011 | Full size is 511 × 374 pixels

Eat people: This may sound controversial or mercenary, but the fact is most technology that gets invented puts someone out of work. Kessler says tech is also the greatest mechanism to generate progress for society and creates a productive economy. “In the last 15 years we had a whole slew of the service economy taken out – think about bank tellers who were replaced by ATMs or travel agents by online booking,” he says. “The good news is we always create more and better jobs of those that are providing the tools to do those things that those jobs did unproductively. If you’re an entrepreneur find an opportunity where you can get rid of jobs.”

Eat people: This may sound controversial or mercenary, but the fact is most technology that…