King Ludd is Still Dead

Technological change is not all upside, and transitions can be painful.

CAMBRIDGE Since the dawn of the industrial age, a recurrent fear has been that technological change will spawn mass unemployment.

But there is no denying that technological change nowadays has accelerated, potentially leading to deeper and more profound dislocations.

Still, even as technological change accelerates, nothing suggests a massive upward shift in unemployment over the next few decades.

There are a lot of surprising innovations coming from South Africa, says David Kaplan, an economist at the University of Cape Town who specializes in tracking technological change.

Of course, this time technological change could be different, and one should be careful in extrapolating the experience of the last two centuries to the next two.

But efforts to block technological change have been futile in the past, and they would be unwise today.

Back of the envelope calculations suggest that, worldwide, technological change could easily lead to the loss of 5 10 million jobs each year.

The real sources of growth are not to be found in supplies and demands and the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses, but in technological and organizational change about which economists have too little to say.

Over the last two or three decades, technological change and increased scale have led to much greater productivity and much higher incomes for those at the top of society s income distribution.

Even in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the giddy pace of technological change is likely to continue to drive globalization, but the political effects will be different for the world of nation states and the world of non state actors.

E business practices also required an enabling legal and regulatory environment, and solutions needed to be sufficiently flexible so as not to be rendered obsolete by rapid technological change and to adapt to the specific needs of developing countries.

In a much cited 1983 article, the great economist Wassily Leontief worried that the pace of modern technological change is so rapid that many workers, unable to adjust, will simply become obsolete, like horses after the rise of the automobile.

UNICEF acknowledges the continuous changing environment and the need to adapt ICT solutions to evolving business needs, technological advancements and changes in the overall organizational context, including reform of the United Nations system.

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There are a lot of surprising innovations coming from South Africa, says David Kaplan, an economist at the University of Cape Town who specializes in tracking technological change. But the gap between esoteric knowledge and economic applications remains large.

Technological progress will be incremental rather than revolutionary.

But technological innovation alone is unlikely to be sufficient.

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These attitudes are changing.

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Moreover, technological change and globalization have reduced the share of middle skill jobs in overall employment, while the share of lower skill jobs has increased. These trends, along with a falling labor force participation rate during the last decade, explain the stagnation of middle class incomes.

As technology advances, it has become more and more difficult to escape it.

Money brings technological regeneration as well as security.

Government, more than any other sector, can shape the impact of technological change, ensuring that challenges are addressed and opportunities are seized. Indeed, it should be at the forefront of such change, by creating an environment that encourages private sector innovation and creativity, while ensuring that citizens are equipped to compete.

CAMBRIDGE Since the dawn of the industrial age, a recurrent fear has been that technological change will spawn mass unemployment. Neoclassical economists predicted that this would not happen, because people would find other jobs, albeit possibly after a long period of painful adjustment.

An unemployed autoworker in Detroit may be fully capable of retraining to become a hospital technician. Yet, after years of taking pride in his work, he could be very reluctant to make the switch.

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Human Change We Can Believe In

climate change may not be gradual.

But rapid change entails immense pain.

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The amount of change in momentum is called impulse.

Change, however, was in the air.

The second challenge is to halt climate change.

The social agenda and the technology agenda are not independent of each other.

Technological innovation and increased energy efficiency have considerable potential.

But technological progress is now eating up the better jobs, too.

The advent of gunpowder and the acceleration of technological advances led to modern warfare.

Programme Component D.2 Technology Management and Technology Road mapping and Foresight

Technological innovation had become one of the principal mechanisms for alleviating poverty.

Change may be frightening, but it is inevitable. And, in fact, it is an important source of opportunity to improve our systems, our strategies, and ourselves.