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From: daleh@tekcae.UUCP (Dale Henrichs)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: ...and now for something completely different
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Date: Wed, 16-Nov-83 03:24:23 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 16 03:24:23 1983
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The latest issue of Mother Jones (December) has a provocative article 
on "high-tech" industry and economic politics.  To quote :

	"Here then, is the challenge:  unless high-tech 
	 executives begin to think as imaginatively about
	 people as they do about semiconductors, we are 
	 headed for social chaos.  What this country needs 
	 is not just a good ten-cent microchip.  We need
	 extensive job retraining for those displaced by the 
	 new technologies, shorter work weeks so everyone is 
	 guaranteed a job, and union protection so these jobs 
	 will be safe and provide a decent wage."


The article contains a number of short interviews with industry 
executives and it is interesting to get some insight on their economic 
views, as well as to highlight some of the problems we may be facing 
in the wake of the current technological revolution.

Dale Henrichs

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