Volti, Unit 2 information, chapters 9-11

• Work in Nonindustrial Societies • Technology and Jobs• Technological Change and Life on the Job

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)

Guilds

MPAA • Jack Valenti, recently

retired President• Represents:

– Disney– Sony Pictures, MGM– Paramount, Fox– Warner Bros.– Universal Studios

© 2003, Associated Press

Technology and Jobs• “The development of technology over time

has not always resulted in diminished workloads; in fact the opposite has sometimes been the case” (153)

• “Technological change does eliminate specific jobs, but it does not eliminate work itself” (182)

© 2002, Napster

1999 - 2000

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Why do RIAA & MPAA care?

P2P = “Killer App”

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Past Examples

Past Examples

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Past Examples

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Past Examples

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© 1989, MGM

More Examples: Xbox

More Examples: Xbox

© Microsoft, 2002 © Bungie Studios, 2004

More Examples: Sirius Satellite Radio

© Sirius, 2005

More Examples: Sirius Satellite Radio

© Sirius, 2005

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