KCRW’s To The Point Should We Blame Technology for High Unemployment? WED OCT 26, 2011
From farms to factories, and now to the service economy, human workers are losing their jobs to machines. The "creative destruction" that used to increase employment is working the other way around, and productivity is on the rise. As computers become more sophisticated, how can humans learn to compete?
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp/tp111026should_we_blame_tech
Tagged with technology unemployment automation economy
From http://sydney.edu.au/podcasts/2007/index.shtml The future of work is not what it used to be. As recently as the 1970s the prime concern was the coming of leisure society - how were we going to handle all the free time about to be delivered by "technological advances" like automation and computers? Far from facing problems of this nature we now have the reality of "over work" for some and unemployment for others. Can we expect more of the same in the future, or will the predictions of an earlier era ultimately come true? (Running time 71:56)
Our guests for this episode of the Marketing Automation Podcast are Aaron Kahlow, Founder and CEO on Online Marketing Institute and Carlos Hidalgo, Executive Director for The Marketing Automation Institute.