The Age of Automation: Technical Genius, Social Dilemma

by George M. Hall

Automation now supplants economic activity more than it supports it. Furthermore, this process is fueled by enormous economic forces, which intensifies dependence on automation and spawns other sociological consequences. Of these consequences, fraud generates the highest immediate losses, amounting to $300 billion annually. In the long run, however, the greatest economic cost will occur through loss of jobs, and a lowering of net skills for most of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275951944
• ISBN13: 9780275951948
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"