We as an industry (IT) and as a society (American, Western, Human and Global) have not taken the time to address these issues. We’re not luddites here. We see a real problem that’s way too politicized in the current environment. The middle class is being gutted and a major contributor is high tech. The cycles are coming too fast for people to adapt to creative destruction.
We are headed towards crisis at breakneck speed but we trivialize it and ignore it (or treat it as political fodder).
COMMENTS
BY Tom Austin
ON August 3, 2012 01:56 PM
Truly a deep problem.
I’ve followed David Autor’s work on the effect of technology on roles and employment. Powerful stuff.
I loved McAfee’s and Bryjolfsson’s work for years ...
I remember writing about this topic on my Gartner blog two years ago. http://blogs.gartner.com/tom_austin/2010/09/14/unmet-social-and-moral-obligations-of-the-it-industry/
We as an industry (IT) and as a society (American, Western, Human and Global) have not taken the time to address these issues. We’re not luddites here. We see a real problem that’s way too politicized in the current environment. The middle class is being gutted and a major contributor is high tech. The cycles are coming too fast for people to adapt to creative destruction.
We are headed towards crisis at breakneck speed but we trivialize it and ignore it (or treat it as political fodder).
Sigh…