Microelectronics Revolution And The Impact Of Automation In The New Industrialized Countries

Vitor Baranauskas

doi:10.1117/12.942468

28 August 1984 Microelectronics Revolution And The Impact Of Automation In The New Industrialized Countries

Vitor Baranauskas

Proceedings Volume 0474, Electro-Culture 1984; (1984) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.942468
Event: 1984 Technical Symposium East, 1984, Arlington, United States

Abstract

A brief review of some important historical points on the origin of the Factories and the Industrial Revolution is presented with emphasis in the social problems related to the automation of the human labor. Until the World War I, the social changes provoked by the Industrial Revolution caused one division of the World in developed and underdeveloped countries. After that period, the less developed nations began their industrialization mainly through the Multinationals Corporations (MC). These enterprises were very important to the production and exportation of utilities and manufactures in general, mainly in those products which required intensive and direct human labor. At present time, with the pervasiveness of microelectronics in the automation, this age seems to reaching an end because all continous processes in industry tend economicaly toward total automation. This fact will cause a retraction in long-term investments and, beyond massive unemployment, there is a tendency for these MC industries to return to their original countries. The most promising alternative to avoid these events, and perhaps the unique, is to incentive an autonomous development in areas of high technology, as for instance, the microelectronics itself.

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Vitor Baranauskas "Microelectronics Revolution And The Impact Of Automation In The New Industrialized Countries", Proc. SPIE 0474, Electro-Culture 1984, (28 August 1984); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.942468

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