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The 40-Hour Work Wee |
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| Futurists 50 years ago were projecting a 20-hour work week in the United States and Western Europe by the dawn of the 21st century. In most developed nations, their predictions have proven directionally correct: total work time has moved downward. |
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Off-Shoring the Know |
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| Although we’ve just explained that there is little reason to worry about off-shoring low-skilled, low-paying jobs that will be automated anyway, many observers are even more anxious about this related trend. Many companies are starting to off-shore some of their highly-skilled technical jobs to overseas providers. |
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Software Wars Challe |
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| The Massachusetts computer and software industry is legendary. |
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Home Automation and |
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| During the PC era, the nexus of info-tech innovation was business, especially in the office. As we enter “the post-PC era,” the nexus of innovation is shifting to the consumer, especially in the home. And this digital home is where most technological innovation will occur over the next five years in the $101 billion consumer electronics industry. |
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Hey What"s That |
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| It’s not the “giant sucking sound” that Ross Perot predicted would signal the drain of millions of American jobs to Third World countries. It’s true that many U.S. workers in manufacturing industries have seen their jobs vanish, and that the U.S. workforce has been declining for more than three years. But the problem isn’t foreign competition with cheaper labor. |
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