The document discusses the impact of technology on jobs. It notes that while technology may reduce some lower-skilled jobs that can be automated, it also creates new higher-skilled jobs related to technology like programmers and engineers. Over time, this transformation of the economy and job market leads to new jobs being created as the economy grows, though there may be some short-term disruption and job losses for lower-skilled workers.

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

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.

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

17.  More jobs? Less jobs?
 What jobs?

18.  Calculations
 Text
 Image
 Sound

19.  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.
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20.  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.
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21.  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.
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22.  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
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23.  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!)

24.  Thousands of frames
 Draw one by one
 http://www.cooltoons2.com/various/artlessons/advanced.html

25.  Use computers to draw
 Vector graphics
 Automatic coloring and lighting
 High precision
 Better quality

26.  Use computers to animate
 Automatic moving
 High precision
 Better quality

27.  Most importantly, saves time, more thinking.
 Greater ideas
 Lower costs
 Profit

28.  Not all about money
 We are humans, work like humans!
 Utilize intelligence
 Meaningful life

30.  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.

31.  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.

32.  Technology pushes the transformation of the
economical structure of a place.
 This can create a lot of jobs in the market.

33.  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

34.  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

35.  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