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Volti, Unit 2 information, chapters 8-10
• Technology and Jobs• Technological Change and Life on the Job
Windows
4 – 45 – 18 - 3
May 31, 2010
28
28 Days Later
Work in Nonindustrial Societies • “Technological innovations were
discouraged, for the prime concern of the guild was the maintenance of the existing way of life” (142)
• “…technology thus stands indicted as the destroyer of long-established ways of working” (165)
Technology and Jobs• “It can be devilishly difficult to mechanically
replicate seeming simple tasks that are being performed by human workers” (176)
• “Technological change does eliminate specific jobs, but it does not eliminate work itself” (182)
“Red Menace”
Killer App
Great Destroyer
4 – 45 – 18 - 3
4 – 45 – 18 - 3
28 Days Later
Winners & Losers
More of one,
Loss of another
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