Analysis: Growth Without Work: The Human Cost of the AI Revolution
By Jibu Elias
At the turn of the millennium, India became the global hub for medical transcription. With fiber optic cables laid in the 1990s, American hospitals found it cheap and efficient to beam voice files across the ocean. Indian workers, fluent in English and medical terminology, turned dictations into polished reports overnight. The time-zone gap became an advantage: a surgeon in Boston could dictate before bed, and wake up to flawless notes typed in Bengaluru.
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