[PDF] The Social Impact Of Microprocessor Technology eBook

Author : Richard S. Rosenberg
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1483267156

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The Social Impact of Computers should be read as a guide to the social implications of current and future applications of computers. Among the basic themes presented are the following: the changing nature of work in response to technological innovation as well as the threat to jobs; personal freedom in the machine age as manifested by challenges to privacy, dignity, and work; the relationship between advances in computer and communications technology and the possibility of increased centralization of authority; and the emergence and influence of artificial intelligence and its role in decision-making, especially in military applications. The book begins with background and historical information on computers and technology. Separate chapters then cover major applications: business, medicine, education, government; major social issues, including crime, privacy, work; and new technologies and problems: industry regulation, electronic funds transfer systems, international competition, national industrial policies, robotics and industrial automation, productivity, the information society, videotex. The final chapter discusses issues associated with ethics and professionalism. The material presented should be accessible to most university students who have had an introductory course in computer science. Self taught or sufficiently motivated individuals who have gained an understanding of how computers operate should also profit from this book. Especially useful are backgrounds in sociology, economics, history, political science, or philosophy.

Author : Leslie Grayson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1468482580

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Silicon chip technology; microprocessor technology; information technology; or quite simply new technology. These are some of the names representing the microelectronics revolution depending upon the audience being addressed by speaker or writer. No previous new industrial development has caused such widespread publicity and discussion amongst users and researchers as the new technology. Concern is being expressed about the effects of new technology on employment, job satisfaction, social life, leisure activities and the economics of commerce and industry. The late 70s saw many doom-laden predictions of those effects but by 1983 both management and trade unions were taking a more objective view of the social and economic impacts, and many correspondents now see the new technology as a means of opening up new industries and overcoming the effects of world recessions. The "chip" has involved the factory floor, the office, the supermarket and the home. Electronic funds transfer, electronic shopping, microelectronic domestic appliances, word processors and microprocessor-controlled machinery mean that the new technology has pervaded all aspects of social and economic life, and the developed countries are now coming to accept it as part of society as a whole. Inevitably the flood of literature on the social and economic impacts of new technology has been overwhelming. Unfortunately the quality of information and arguments propagated at conferences, in journal papers and research reports has indicated that there has been little quantifiable evidence available on the effects of these impacts.

Author : Malcolm Warner
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Comparison of the impact of microelectronics technological change on employment and labour relations in the UK and other OECD countries - considers social implications; discusses industrial robots, computer aided design, flexible manufacturing systems, word processing and information technology in the context of industrial development, quality of working life, personnel management, collective bargaining, etc.; describes microprocessor applications in Australia, Canada, India, Japan, USA, and Western Europe. References.