发表于2024-12-26
Work Unemployment and the New Technology 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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The New Information Society
We constantly hear today about the new technology and how important
it is for our future. Most people had never heard of the phenomenon before
the end of the 1970s, and their experience was limited to a small nunlber
of gadgets based on microelectronics, such as pocket calculators, digital
watches and electronic games. They may have known of the existence of
word processors as being sophisticated and very expensive forms of
typewriter, but the average person had probably never seen such a device,
let alone had access to one. Of course, many were aware that computers
were increasingly being adopted by a variety of organizations because their
bills, wage or salary slips, air tickets, cheques and bank statements contained
an array of digital figures, but this hardly seemed to be of major significance
to their way of life.
After all, the members of modern societies are used to new inventions,
and there was no particular reason to suppose that this microelectronics
technology was any more significant than other technological inventions
that had emerged before. Ever since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution
there has been a deluge of technological development s which have resulted
in new products and industries, larger markets, increased productivity,
economic growth and a level of prosperity which earlier generations would
never have believed possible. Those who had predicted that the replacement
of human labour by machines would lead to widespread unemployment
and human misery had been proved wrong. Why then should this
technology be any different from what had gone before? Surely the
development of the new technology should create even more wealth, new
employment opportunities, and perhaps even the dawn of a new
information age of increased leisure where human beings would be
liberated from the constant need to work in order to survive?
Microelectronics has already been extensively applied in many sectors
Work Unemployment and the New Technology 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书