Your Future in an Automated Society

The topic of this episode of Maincurrents is "Your Future in an Automated Society," hosted by Lee Graham. The panelists are:

Charles W. Zerweck, Corporate Vice President, Automatic Retailers of America, and President, Sales and Marketing Executives International
Martin Gainsbrugh, Chief Economist and Vice President, National Industrial Conference Board
Lee Deighton, Chairman, The Macmillan Company, Publishers
Donald Fink, General Manager Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Jerome Steiker, Vice President, Royal National Bank of New York

They discuss how the rise in automation of manual labor and analysis may affect job obsolescence as well as job creation. The employed must be willing to change careers and shift their skills with technology. This will expand service and information and create challenges in training. They look at the issue from the point of view of the consumer whose life is made more convenient through automation and the provider whose job description is evolving.

They also discuss how automation may affect copyright and the duplication and dissemination of original work.

This discussion was sponsored by Sales and Marketing Executives International.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 150017
Municipal archives id: T1827