[Info-vax] OT: How IT Costs More Jobs than It Creates

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4ea7f254$0$6868$e4fe514c at news2.news.xs4all.nl>, MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes:
> On 26-10-2011 11:54, Neil Rieck wrote:
>> How IT Costs More Jobs than It Creates (a reality check)
>>
>> http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38971/?mod=more
> 
> 	"A new book challenges the standard view that technological
> 	advances are always good for employment.
> 
> 	[...]
> 
> 	Software has directly put some people out of work, as any-
> 	one who has made an airline reservation or sought directory
> 	assistance over the telephone may have noticed in recent
> 	years."
> 
> Isn't that rather self-evident and hasn't this been known almost as
> long as commercially viable computer systems have existed...?
> 

   Time to throw your sabot into the workings again.

   Meanwhile, as long as Microsoft Office continues to spread, the
   opposite affect will compete.  I've never wasted so much time at work
   as I have fighting MS Word.