MGI puts a typically positive spin on all this. It argues that being
spared relatively undemanding tasks will free knowledge workers to deal
with more complex ones, making them more productive. It argues that pandora beads bulk
latest wave of innovation will be good for both entrepreneurs and
consumers. Small businesses will be able to act like giant ones, because
cloud computing will give them access to huge processing power and
storage, and because pandora beads cheap
internet destroys distance. Innovators will be able to test their new
ideas with prototypes, then produce them for niche markets. Consumers
captured much of cheap pandora beads charms
economic gains created by “general-purpose technologies” like steam and
electric power, because they stimulated competition as well as
increasing efficiency. MGI reckons that so far they have captured
two-thirds of pandora beads canada
gains from pandora beads clearance internet.
Techno-backlash
Nevertheless, MGI’s study has some sympathy with Messrs Brynjolfsson and
McAfee. It worries that modern technologies will widen inequality,
increase social exclusion and provoke a backlash. It also speculates
that public-sector institutions will be too clumsy to prepare people for
this brave new world. Policymakers need to think as hard about managing
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current wave of disruptive innovation as technologists are thinking about turbocharging it. For one thing, lululemon outlet
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skills and knowledge that they impart, will need to be rethought:
“chalk and talk” instruction will be done best by machines, freeing
teachers to become more like individual coaches to their pupils.
Knowledge-intensive industries will also have to rethink cherished
practices. For a start, in an age in which information and processing
power are ubiquitous, they will have to become less like guilds, whose
reflexes are to regulate supply and restrict competition, and more like
mass-market businesses, whose instinct is to maximise Lululemon pants
customer base. Innovation will disrupt many areas of skilled work that
have so far had it easy. But if we manage them well, smart machines will
free us, not enslave us.
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