The Social Implications of Robotics and Advanced Industrial Automation
I.F.I.P.Working Conference Proceedings
Published in February 1989
Book
Hardback
308 pages
978-0-444-87320-0 (ISBN)
Description
Robots and other advanced technologies will undoubtedly exert a profound influence on all aspects of life in the future. This book is the result of a conference involving computer experts and scholars from the social sciences, who met to discuss the deep concern felt about the social implications of rapid innovations in information processing. Among the issues raised were the effects of advanced technologies on the quality of life, and the dichotomy between the `information poor' and the `information rich' at both international and individual level. Hopes that robots will, paradoxically, make the world more human were expressed, the challenge being to use the technologies in an appropriate way but not to impose them.
Robots and other advanced technologies will undoubtedly exert a profound influence on all aspects of life in the future. This book is the result of a conference involving computer experts and scholars from the social sciences, who met to discuss the deep concern felt about the social implications of rapid innovations in information processing. Among the issues raised were the effects of advanced technologies on the quality of life, and the dichotomy between the `information poor' and the `information rich' at both international and individual level. Hopes that robots will, paradoxically, make the world more human were expressed, the challenge being to use the technologies in an appropriate way but not to impose them.
Robots and other advanced technologies will undoubtedly exert a profound influence on all aspects of life in the future. This book is the result of a conference involving computer experts and scholars from the social sciences, who met to discuss the deep concern felt about the social implications of rapid innovations in information processing. Among the issues raised were the effects of advanced technologies on the quality of life, and the dichotomy between the `information poor' and the `information rich' at both international and individual level. Hopes that robots will, paradoxically, make the world more human were expressed, the challenge being to use the technologies in an appropriate way but not to impose them.
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English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
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Elsevier Science & Technology
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
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Height: 230 mm
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978-0-444-87320-0 (9780444873200)
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Histadrut's Leading Role in Israel Economy and Society (I. Kesar). Working at Leisure (B. Sherman). Impact of Automation and Robotics on Employment in Israel (I.H. Meidan). Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Salient International Socio-Economic Impacts of AI and Robotics (H. Sackman). The Inanimate and the Intelligent (J. Regev). On the Impact of Industrial Automation, Robotics and AI on the Vulnerability of Information Economy (K. Brunnstein). The Impact of Advanced Technology and Robotics on Kibbutz Life. High-Tech in Kibbutz Industry: Structural Factors and Social Implications (M. Rosner). High-Tech in the Kibbutz Industry: A Case Study (M. Palgi). Kibbutz-Industry - Future for a Socialistic Experiment? (M. Landwehr). Advanced Technology and Its Impact on Labor Relations. Industrial Robots - Social Consequences and Union Policy (P. Kolm). Technological Changes: Their Impact on Labour Relations and on Human Resources Management (O. Carmi, J. Gattegno). Trade Union Experience with Advanced Industrial Automation in the FRG - New Challenges and New Economic Constraints (U. Briefs). Man, Work and Modern Machine Technique: Discourse on Valuations (J. Drumm). The Influence of Technology on Organization, Society and the Individual. Human Resources Innovative Environment - A System Perspective (I. Meshoulam). On Robots & Spouses: Social Interaction In and Out of the Robotized Workplace (O. Shenkar, J. Richter). Law and Computer - Some Social Aspects (L. Horev). Sensitive Problems of an `Informational Society': Sociotechnical Handling of Complex Organizations, People, Modern Technology, State, and Societies (A.K. Matejko). New Technologies and New Patterns of Social Organization and Social Change (G. Schmidt). The Protagonists in Innovation: Who Gains What? (N. Alter). Training in the Age of Constant Technological Change. The Penetration of Technologies and its Impact on Vocational Training from the Point of View of Job Mobility (Y. Hecht). The Issues of the Robotization on Qualifications: Ineluctable or Not? The Stakes of Training (J. Berleur et al.). Robot Odyssey: A Microworld Starring Robots as Humans' Helpers (T. Perl). The ORT Robotics and Automation Project (D. Sharon, J. Harstein). Working Group Reports and Final Panel Remarks.