Race Against The Machine By Andrew Mccafee

Technology basically runs America as we know it today, but is that a good thing? Automation, or the use of largely automatic equipment in a system of manufacturing or other production process, is slowly replacing human hands in factories and other large businesses. Computers are taking over the kind of knowledge that people of this generation have gone through multiple years of school for, they just have all of our hard work programmed into their hardware. Automation in our country will lead to an economic collapse, taking all of our jobs and it is dumbing us down more and more each day as we go on. Rapid technological change has been destroying jobs much faster than it has been creating them. It is contributing to the laziness of a median income and the growth of inequality in America. Andrew McAfee, co-author of the book Race Against the Machine, thinks that we could now be entering a world where automation will cause wages to fall and jobs to dry up (). People have seen

They see it as the use of mechanical and electronic equipment to reduce the need for human automation. In factories, automation can produce more goods in less time with fewer materials; machines can be used for all of our boring, repetitive work. The work in factories becomes lighter and cleaner and manual skills decline in importance. Employee responsibilities are heightened and advanced automation in both factory and office tends to enlarge jobs rather than further sub-divide the work. Most important is its impact on socio-technical systems, as automation enhances the interdependence of all employees and contributes to the integration of the organization. Since events in one segment of the process have immediate repercussions on the total system, communication increases from both ends. There is more communication between employees and supervisors, between engineers and foremen and between the office and the