Garrett Baldwin reports on a subject that one of the I2M Web Portal editors, Michael D. Campbell, has begun to examine in context with energy-resource issues, e.g. natural resources and employment - https://i2mconsultants.com/downloads/corp/NUCLEARPOWER-November1-2014.pdf
In another article, Is the Internet Killing Middle-Class Jobs, Pethkoukis reignites an age-old debate on the role - or non-role - of technology in fueling unemployment. That author explores a recent Harvard Business Review article by former Intel executive Bill Davidow called The Internet Has Been a Colossal Economic Disappointment. Davidow argues the Internet fueled widespread job displacement and spurred underwhelming job creation. But before Pethokoukis concludes indecisively on the employment impact of disruptive technology or compares the payroll levels of Facebook today versus General Motors in the 1970s, he paints a grisly future where average Americans and the 1 per centers live under extremely divergent conditions, as portrayed in the 2013 movie Elysium.
The robopocalypse for workers may be inevitable, he opens. In this vision of the future, super-smart machines will best humans in pretty much every task. A few of us will own the machines, a few will work a bit, perhaps entitled made by man artisanal goods, while the rest will live off a government-provided income. The current conversation will not aim to answer the Pethkoukis question, which recalls a two-century debate and is exhaustively prone to theoretical over-examination. Because so little mainstream conversation on the capital-labor dynamic of technological waves and global trade exists, few have taken the first step to solving any of its problems. This question remains locked in a theoretical time warp, with limited discussions about technology roles - or non-roles depending on the position, in displacing workers, with opposition to come from latter-day Luddites, no doubt. Read on...Part 2 also.
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