Looking back at workplace technologies that came with dire predictions on the workforce (example Self service kiosks for restaurants)
Choose a single, discrete technological advance of years past.
Then, I would like you to answer a series of questions about the technology, all in service
to a thesis arguing why, why not, or to what extent the dire predictions came to fruition.
In general, focus more on the impact on work and the workers than simply
on the “wondrousness” of the technology you’re analyzing. The questions I would like you
to answer in developing your assignment will be along the lines of:
• What could the technology
actually do?
• What was it intended to do?
• What sorts of predictions
were made and by whom?
• In what way/for whom did
these predictions actually
come to pass?
• Did any group eschew a
predicted negative outcome,
and if so, how?
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