Volti, Unit 2 information, chapters 8-10

• Technology and Jobs• Technological Change and Life on the Job

Windows

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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

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Winners & Losers

More of one,

Loss of another