Disruptive Technologies: More Computers, Less Jobs?

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Cheung Chun Yuen

Kwok Yik Hei Howard

Lau Ho Fan

Mak Wing Lok

Wong Man Lok

Societal impactEnvironmental

concerns

Intellectual

contributions

Financial and

business

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Conclusion

High computing speed

Provide us a platform to finish jobs online

Easier to communicate with others

Save time

Computer is able to deal with complex design

Automation enhance production rate

Factories can reduce the money spent on the workers

Rate of unemployment will increase

Computer provides a platform to us for different purposes

E.g.

Email, E-learning, ATM machines, washing machines, etc.

Jobs◦ Low-tech

◦ Repetitive, etc.

Are replaced by◦ Robots

◦ Computers, etc.

Jobs are created in high-technology sector◦ Programmers

◦ System Analyst

◦ IT Consultant

◦ Computer Engineers , etc.

Lower technical jobs

Job nature◦ Repetitive

◦ Replaceable by automated technology

◦ Do not need a lot of job experience

Some of them will change to ◦ Monitoring robots

◦ Quality checking

Hard to change from the advancing in technology

Characteristics of the workers◦ Selling or

◦ Exchanging the experience to/from their service buyer

Work without geographical boundaries

E.G. US hired the employers of helpdesk service from South-East Asia

Convenient transportation

More jobs? Less jobs?

What jobs?

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Characteristics:◦ Typing and printing are separated

◦ Electronic (random access) memory

◦ More efficient editing and printing

Benefits◦ Less typing

◦ More thinking (that is what humans should do!)

Use computers to draw

Vector graphics

Automatic coloring and lighting

High precision

Better quality

Use computers to animate

Automatic moving

High precision

Better quality

Most importantly, saves time, more thinking.

Greater ideas

Lower costs

Profit

Not all about money

We are humans, work like humans!

Utilize intelligence

Meaningful life

Jobs can be divided into 2 big kinds: the ones with higher skills and higher income ,the other ones with lower skills and income.

Technology would reduce the number of low-skilled jobs available in the market.

More computerized methods in different jobs, more people would be sacked as their jobs can simply be replaced by computers.

The workers without specific skills cannot find jobs.

The productivity of the country decreases.

The economy of the country decreases.

Companies will close if they cannot make profit.

More people are unemployed.

Technology pushes the transformation of the economical structure of a place.

This can create a lot of jobs in the market.

More machines in the workplace, safer and more qualified products.

Increase the foreign investment

Encourage the currency flow

Have positive impact on the economy of a place

More jobs are created

Technology can bring us new jobs

For example, Iphone Apps

More new jobs, less people are unemployed

Economy of a place is better

More jobs are available in the market

Technologies can take away some jobs at the beginning, but only limited to the lower-skill ones

The effect of the decrease in number of jobs only lasts for a certain period of time

A transformation of economical structure then takes place

New jobs follows the better economy

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