SOC150 - Techonology and Jobs

This is a teachback assignment for a class at UAT. It is a tongue-in-cheek look at how technology affects jobs from a Luddite point of view. One point I did not bring up (because it did not fit with the theme of the video) is how technology creates jobs. It is logical that for every job eliminated by technology, another is created (possibly more than 1). If this weren't the case, unemployment would continue to rise to the point where no one could afford the products made by machines because they wouldn't have work. This may in fact be a limiting factor on automation in the production environments. The assignment is due right now, so a lot of post-production work was not done. The idea is there, the original vision is not. Many thanks to http://www.incompetech.com for the royalty free music clips (they are, in order, Feral Chase, Long Road Ahead B, and Dark Star). It was nice to have three pieces of music that were thematically different, but had the same feel.

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YouTube | July 6, 2009

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