---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 10:51:57 EDT From: Walter Durling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (ICT-JOBS): ICT and jobs: Creator and/or destroyer? Creator and/or destroyer? I would prefer to say Catalyst. ICT will serve as a stimulus for job creation, but it will not be the Creator. In many instances, it will serve to accelerate a process of job elimination that had its beginnings someplace else. It shall goad man to become more efficient and more competitive, eliminating time waste and outmoded forms of work, but it will not be the Destroyer. Modern technology, except its applications in the defense industries, does not evolve to increase the misery still prevalent in our civilization. It is a quest for perfection. The present and future state of communications will make our lives easier and will foster levels of education unheard of in centuries past. Better quality education is what is needed to take advantage of the technology. Better systems of skill training are the panacea for the unemployed and the under-employed. Our educational systems should be revamped with imagination and foresight, to prepare the new generations for a century of learning, technology,invention and discovery. We should stop knocking technology as if we wanted to go back to some dark ages of stagnant development and intellectual morass. Technology? The spark of the Divine in our civilization. Walter Durling http://www.panama.phoenix.net/~wdurling
