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Autor/in | Florida, Richard |
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Titel | Robots Aren't the Problem: It's Us |
Quelle | In: Chronicle of Higher Education, (2013)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0009-5982 |
Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Robotics; Social Change; Computer Attitudes; Influence of Technology; Technological Advancement; Science and Society; Automation; Futures (of Society); Semiskilled Workers; On the Job Training; Unskilled Workers; Interpersonal Competence; Economic Development Robotertechnik; Sozialer Wandel; Technological development; Technologische Entwicklung; Future; Society; Zukunft; Semi-skilled worker; Semi-skilled workers; Semiskilled worker; Ungelernter Arbeitnehmer; Angelernter Arbeitnehmer; Training-on-the-Job; Unskilled worker; Hilfsarbeiter; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Wirtschaftsentwicklung |
Abstract | Everyone has an opinion about technology. Depending on whom you ask, it will either: a) Liberate us from the drudgery of everyday life, rescue us from disease and hardship, and enable the unimagined flourishing of human civilization; or b) Take away our jobs, leave us broke, purposeless, and miserable, and cause civilization as we know it to collapse. The first strand of thinking reflects "techno-utopianism"--the conviction that technology paves a clear and unyielding path to progress and the good life. The technology critic Evgeny Morozov dubs today's brand of technology utopianism "solutionism," a deep, insidious kind of technological determinism in which issues can be minimized by supposed technological fixes. On the other side stand the growing ranks of "techno-pessimists." Some say that technology's influence is greatly overstated, seeing instead a petering out of innovation and its productive forces. Another techno-dystopian strand sees the "rise of the robots" as a threat not just to blue-collar jobs but also to knowledge work. The author argues that automation will engender neither utopia nor dystopia, but humans alone are responsible for our society's economic future. (ERIC). |
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Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2017/4/10 |