21. The pace of technological change has already rendered obsolete many items that few would argue amongst the worth of preserving. 22. One of the authors has conducted an analysis of a comprehensive sample of collective agreements dealing with technological change. 23. At the beginning of a period of technological change, the long term implications may appear remote. 24. However, many agreements included provision covering the possible effects of technological change on working conditions and the quality of working life. 25. It examines recent developments which make this technological change inevitable and reviews political, economic and social consequences of the rapid development of information technology. 26. Analogy is the only real road map for courts when technological change leaves them in unknown legal territory. 27. And high rice prices, along with the technological change that doubled and tripled productivity, did much to eradicate grinding rural poverty. 28. And this time the good-news guys are apt to raise fewer hackles with their paean to the virtues of technological change and productivity growth. 29. Anxiety about technological change, for instance. 30. As the pace of change quickens, it is ever clearer that technological changes are better understood as trade-offs than wholesale improvements. |
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