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Cheung Chun Yuen
Kwok Yik Hei Howard
         Lau Ho Fan
      Mak Wing Lok
     Wong Man Lok
Environmental           Intellectual
Societal impact
                            concerns             contributions




                                     Financial and
             Conclusion                business
                                        aspects
   High computing speed

   Provide us a platform to finish jobs online

   Easier to communicate with others

   Save time
   Computer is able to
    deal with complex
    design
   Automation enhance
    production rate
   Factories can reduce
    the money spent on
    the workers
   Rate of
    unemployment will
    increase
   Computer provides a
    platform to us for
    different purposes
   E.g.
   Email, E-
    learning, ATM
    machines, washing
    machines, etc.
   Jobs
    ◦ Low-tech
    ◦ Repetitive, etc.

   Are replaced by
    ◦ Robots
    ◦ Computers, etc.
   Jobs are created in high-technology sector
    ◦   Programmers
    ◦   System Analyst
    ◦   IT Consultant
    ◦   Computer Engineers , etc.
   Lower technical jobs

   Job nature
    ◦ Repetitive
    ◦ Replaceable by automated technology
    ◦ Do not need a lot of job experience
   Some of them will change to
    ◦ Monitoring robots
    ◦ Quality checking
   Hard to change from the advancing in
    technology

   Characteristics of the workers
    ◦ Selling or
    ◦ Exchanging the experience to/from their service
      buyer
   Work without geographical boundaries

   E.G. US hired the employers of helpdesk
    service from South-East Asia

   Convenient transportation
   More jobs? Less jobs?

   What jobs?
   Calculations

   Text

   Image

   Sound
   Joseph Leo Birmingham (August 6, 1884 –
    April 24, 1946) was a baseball player.
    Birmingham was an infielder who
    occasionally played the infield for the
    Cleveland Naps.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Birmingham (modified)
   Joseph Leo Birmingham (August 6, 1884 –
    April 24, 1946) was a baseball player.
    Birmingham was an inoutfielder who
    occasionally played the infield for the
    Cleveland Naps.

   Typing mistake! No delete button.
   Joseph Leo Birmingham (August 6, 1884 –
    April 24, 1946) was a baseball player.
    Birmingham was an outfielder who
    occasionally played the infield for the
    Cleveland Naps.

   Typing mistake! Type all over again…
   Joseph Leo Birmingham (August 6, 1884 –
    April 24, 1946) was a baseball player.
    Birmingham was an outfielder who
    occasionally played the infield for the
    Cleveland Naps

   Want a second copy? Type all over again…
   Characteristics:
    ◦ Typing and printing are separated
    ◦ Electronic (random access) memory
    ◦ More efficient editing and printing
   Benefits
    ◦ Less typing
    ◦ More thinking (that is what humans should do!)
   Thousands of frames
   Draw one by one




   http://www.cooltoons2.com/various/artlessons/advanced.html
   Use computers to draw
   Vector graphics




   Automatic coloring and lighting
   High precision
   Better quality
   Use computers to animate




   Automatic moving
   High precision
   Better quality
   Most importantly, saves time, more thinking.




   Greater ideas
   Lower costs
   Profit
   Not all about money




   We are humans, work like humans!
   Utilize intelligence
   Meaningful life
   Jobs can be divided into 2 big kinds: the ones
    with higher skills and higher income ,the
    other ones with lower skills and income.
   Technology would reduce the number of low-
    skilled jobs available in the market.
   More computerized methods in different
    jobs, more people would be sacked as their
    jobs can simply be replaced by computers.
   The workers without specific skills cannot
    find jobs.
   The productivity of the country decreases.
   The economy of the country decreases.
   Companies will close if they cannot make
    profit.
   More people are unemployed.
   Technology pushes the transformation of the
    economical structure of a place.

   This can create a lot of jobs in the market.
   More machines in the workplace, safer and
    more qualified products.
   Increase the foreign investment
   Encourage the currency flow
   Have positive impact on the economy of a
    place
   More jobs are created
   Technology can bring us new jobs

   For example, Iphone Apps

   More new jobs, less people are unemployed

   Economy of a place is better

   More jobs are available in the market
   Technologies can take away some jobs at the
    beginning, but only limited to the lower-skill
    ones
   The effect of the decrease in number of jobs
    only lasts for a certain period of time
   A transformation of economical structure
    then takes place
   New jobs follows the better economy
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Disruptive Technologies: More Computers, Less Jobs?

  • 1. Cheung Chun Yuen Kwok Yik Hei Howard Lau Ho Fan Mak Wing Lok Wong Man Lok
  • 2. Environmental Intellectual Societal impact concerns contributions Financial and Conclusion business aspects
  • 3.
  • 4. High computing speed  Provide us a platform to finish jobs online  Easier to communicate with others  Save time
  • 5. Computer is able to deal with complex design  Automation enhance production rate
  • 6. Factories can reduce the money spent on the workers  Rate of unemployment will increase
  • 7. Computer provides a platform to us for different purposes  E.g.  Email, E- learning, ATM machines, washing machines, etc.
  • 8.
  • 9. Jobs ◦ Low-tech ◦ Repetitive, etc.  Are replaced by ◦ Robots ◦ Computers, etc.
  • 10. Jobs are created in high-technology sector ◦ Programmers ◦ System Analyst ◦ IT Consultant ◦ Computer Engineers , etc.
  • 11. Lower technical jobs  Job nature ◦ Repetitive ◦ Replaceable by automated technology ◦ Do not need a lot of job experience
  • 12. Some of them will change to ◦ Monitoring robots ◦ Quality checking
  • 13. Hard to change from the advancing in technology  Characteristics of the workers ◦ Selling or ◦ Exchanging the experience to/from their service buyer
  • 14. Work without geographical boundaries  E.G. US hired the employers of helpdesk service from South-East Asia  Convenient transportation
  • 15.
  • 16.
  • 17.
  • 18.
  • 19.
  • 20.
  • 21. More jobs? Less jobs?  What jobs?
  • 22. Calculations  Text  Image  Sound
  • 23. Joseph Leo Birmingham (August 6, 1884 – April 24, 1946) was a baseball player. Birmingham was an infielder who occasionally played the infield for the Cleveland Naps.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Birmingham (modified)
  • 24. Joseph Leo Birmingham (August 6, 1884 – April 24, 1946) was a baseball player. Birmingham was an inoutfielder who occasionally played the infield for the Cleveland Naps.  Typing mistake! No delete button.
  • 25. Joseph Leo Birmingham (August 6, 1884 – April 24, 1946) was a baseball player. Birmingham was an outfielder who occasionally played the infield for the Cleveland Naps.  Typing mistake! Type all over again…
  • 26. Joseph Leo Birmingham (August 6, 1884 – April 24, 1946) was a baseball player. Birmingham was an outfielder who occasionally played the infield for the Cleveland Naps  Want a second copy? Type all over again…
  • 27. Characteristics: ◦ Typing and printing are separated ◦ Electronic (random access) memory ◦ More efficient editing and printing  Benefits ◦ Less typing ◦ More thinking (that is what humans should do!)
  • 28. Thousands of frames  Draw one by one  http://www.cooltoons2.com/various/artlessons/advanced.html
  • 29. Use computers to draw  Vector graphics  Automatic coloring and lighting  High precision  Better quality
  • 30. Use computers to animate  Automatic moving  High precision  Better quality
  • 31. Most importantly, saves time, more thinking.  Greater ideas  Lower costs  Profit
  • 32. Not all about money  We are humans, work like humans!  Utilize intelligence  Meaningful life
  • 33.
  • 34. Jobs can be divided into 2 big kinds: the ones with higher skills and higher income ,the other ones with lower skills and income.  Technology would reduce the number of low- skilled jobs available in the market.  More computerized methods in different jobs, more people would be sacked as their jobs can simply be replaced by computers.
  • 35. The workers without specific skills cannot find jobs.  The productivity of the country decreases.  The economy of the country decreases.  Companies will close if they cannot make profit.  More people are unemployed.
  • 36. Technology pushes the transformation of the economical structure of a place.  This can create a lot of jobs in the market.
  • 37. More machines in the workplace, safer and more qualified products.  Increase the foreign investment  Encourage the currency flow  Have positive impact on the economy of a place  More jobs are created
  • 38. Technology can bring us new jobs  For example, Iphone Apps  More new jobs, less people are unemployed  Economy of a place is better  More jobs are available in the market
  • 39. Technologies can take away some jobs at the beginning, but only limited to the lower-skill ones  The effect of the decrease in number of jobs only lasts for a certain period of time  A transformation of economical structure then takes place  New jobs follows the better economy