Technology and the Future of Work :: Robotics Technology Electronics Essays

engineering science and the Future of WorkEvery society creates an idealised image of the prox - a vision that serves asa beacon to direct the visual sensation and energy of its people. The Ancient Jewishnation prayed for deliverance to a promised worldly concern of milk and honey. Later,Christian clerics held out the promise of eternal salvation in the heavenlykingdom. In the modern age, the idea of a next expert utopia has servedas the guiding light of industrial society. For more than a degree Celsius utopiandreamers and men and women of science and letters have looked for a future worldwhere machines would replace human labour, creating a near workerless society ofteemingness and leisure. (J Rifkin 1995 p.42)This paper volition consider developments in technology, robotics, electronicminiaturisation, digitisation and schooling technology with its friendlyimplications for human values and the future of work. It allow for signal that we haveentered post modernity or po st Fordism, a in the raw age technological revolution,which profoundly effects social structure and values. nigh issues that will beaddressed atomic number 18 elimination of work in the tralatitious sense, longevity, earlyretirement, the elimination of cash, the restructuring of education, industryand a movement to world(a) politics, economics and world government.In particular this paper will paint a picture that the Christian Judao work ethic withsocietys goals of full employment in the traditional sense is no longerappropriate, necessary or even achievable in the near future, and that thedefinition of work requisites to be out-of-the-way(prenominal) more liberal. It argues that as a post marketera approaches, that some(prenominal) government and society will need to recognise theeffects of recent technology on social structure and re-distribute resources, therewill need to be rapid development of policies to assist appropriate socialadjustments if original social unres t, inequity, trauma and possible civildisruption is to be avoided.Yonedji Masuda (1983) suggests we are moving from an industrial society to aninformation society and maintains that a social revolution is taking place. Hesuggests that we have two choices Computopia or an automated State, acontrolled society. He believes that if we choose the former, the door to asociety make full with boundless possibilities will open but if the latter, ourfuture society will become a forbidding and a horrible age. He optimisticallypredicts our new future society will be computopia which he describes asexhibiting information values where individuals will develop their cognitivecreative abilities and citizens and communities will participate voluntarily inshared goals and ideas.Barry Jones (1990) says we are passing through a post-service revolution into apost- service society - which could be a golden age of leisure and personal