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WHY THE ATM DIDN'T KILL BANK TELLER JOBS, BUT THE IPHONE DID
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ATMs were predicted to increase bank teller unemployment, but they didn't. However, the number of bank tellers started to fall after the birth of the iPhone. When a technology automates what a human does within an existing paradigm, it rarely gets rid of the human, as the definition of the paradigm creates the need for human involvement. The iPhone created a new paradigm that made the tasks that the ATM substituted irrelevant.