Sujeet Bhatt wrote:
>But according to a new analysis, this view couldn't be more wrong: far
>from being in technological nirvana, we are fast approaching a new
>dark age. That, at least, is the conclusion of Jonathan Huebner, a
>physicist working at the Pentagon's Naval Air Warfare Center in China
>Lake, California. He says the rate of technological innovation reached
>a peak a century ago and has been declining ever since. And like the
>lookout on the Titanic who spotted the fateful iceberg, Huebner sees
>the end of innovation looming dead ahead. His study will be published
>in Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
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Very, very interesting. I strongly suspect that there is a strong
correlation between the fall in the rate of innovation and the
deskilling of labor /"rationalization" of work. Wish I had the skills to
do the research to find out if that's true.
Joanna
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