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Is technological change inevitable?
Calling a change inevitable can describe a force or surrender a choice.
Your answer
A little context
Everyone at work says the new system is coming whether anyone likes it or not, and within a month it has arrived. Later you try to remember who decided, and find that nobody seems to have. It simply became the thing that was happening.
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