Computers and Society Feature Article TechnologicaI Advances: Who Benefits Most? Joseph S. Fulda, C.~SiE., Ph.D. New York,, N Y (212) 927-0662 Page 6 December 1994 their hourly outpm increased by the invention of this simple yet elegant device. From small matters to large makers, the principle holds true: Technological advances help everyone~ but most of all the less well off. Nor is this principle limited to inventions and discoveries, but also to improvements in the methods and means of production. Who has been helped most by specialization, mass production, automation, and robotics? The rich man could ahvays afford the work of the artisan, but the ordinary consumer depends on the econolmes of moderu technologies and productive methods for the wide variety of simple household items from which he is free to choose at low prices, Likewise, while advances in productive methods may enrich manufacturers, it is the factory worker who as a result of these very advances has had tfis job become lighter, more productive, and, hence, better paid. Nor is this observation true only of blue-collar workers. From the quill to the pen to the typewriter to the full-screen editor, the jobs o f h e lowest-paid,
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TechnologicaI Advances: Who Benefits Most?
Fulda, Joseph S.
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Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 1994
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