Labor has been displaced by technology in many other fields in the name of efficiency, why should sports be different?

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Technology pioneered by games is now being put to use in fields from military training programmes to molecular biology and virtual showrooms for cars.

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By working in education technology (or one of the myriad other social tech fields).

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After starting small two decades ago, he's built a fast-growing exploration and production company by buying up castoff fields from supermajors, then reinvigorating them with new technology.

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Today, three years after Deepwater Horizon, offshore drilling is booming in the Gulf of Mexico, driven by the continued high price of oil, a series of massive new fields discovered with the help of improved exploration technology, and the growing difficulty of finding major new oil fields abroad.

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