divendres, 6 de març del 2015

The microchip

The microchip revolution is based on size and cost. Microchips give us cheap computing power in a tiny space. As the cost of microchips continues to fall, it becomes economically worthwhile to use them in more and more ways. We have to accept the microchip, or face the alternative of opting out of the free world market. Accepting the microchip brings benefits and problems. The benefits include greater efficiency in finding and using information, greater control over pollution and the use of the natural resource, help for the sick and the disable and a whole range of “smart” machines to inform, entertain and serve us.
We can guard against some of the problems. We can, for example, be alive to the danger of the misuse of information held on computer files.
There is the problem of alienation: people who cannot find a place in the technological world of the future. To guard against this problem, we need education and training schemes, and machines which are easy to use.

Finally, skills are made redundant by machines. Again, there’s a need for education and retraining. The wealth needed to pay for schemes like these is more likely to appear if we use the microchip. 

   

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