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A large volume of the jobs that are being automated are are invented with computers in mind. The more stringent accounting standards that were created over the
by bgilroy26 13y ago
A large volume of the jobs that are being automated are are invented with computers in mind.
The more stringent accounting standards that were created over the last 20 years would have led to the demand for thousands upon thousands of white collar workers, if we still kept books and records the way we did in 1910.
On the other hand, companies would not have been able to grow large enough to need new accounting standards in the first place, if not for the productivity increases since the introduction of the computer.
- d4nt 13y agoWhat's more, there would be a lot fewer people around if computers weren't helping us grow food, generate energy, cure diseases and move everything around just in time. The more I think about it, the more I think computers are a sort of virus and we're in a symbiotic relationship with them.
- crpatino 13y agoThe revolution, discovery of fossil fuels and antibiotics, international trade, etc, were all widespread before the invention of computers. You could argue that operations research (a branch of applied math that deals with logistics mostly) has evolved concurrently with computer technology, but the former has one or two decades of a head start in terms of adoption by private enterprises. I think it's more like computers allows us to do the same stuff faster and at a broader scale, but it has had little impact so far in which stuff do we choose to do.