Tag: jobs
The computer revolution, unleashed in the 1970s, has not stopped. Minicomputers replaced mainframes, and IBM introduced its personal computer. Then came the Internet, laptops, robots, iPhones, and increasingly intelligent software that can drive cars and discern music preferences. Continual technological change has reshaped and regenerated the economy several times over, creating new types of jobs…
Anyone who drives on the nation’s toll roads has used a job-eliminating device: electronic tollgates. Unemployment due to new technologies – and workers’ resistance to them – are as old as the industrial revolution. In the early 1900s, glassblowers were replaced by mechanized bottle makers. Today, autoworkers are no longer necessary to bolt car parts…
