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...Ultimately," predicts Harley Shaiken, a former Detroit assembly-line machinist who now works as an industrial consultant at M.I.T., "retraining will not be possible, because there will...
Aside from the specific problem of lost jobs, Shaiken warns of more intangible difficulties. "The use of robots has social costs that are not being addressed by anyone in the U.S. today," he says. "By designing a production process that minimizes human participation, you freeze out the worker's control and you freeze out his initiative. We often overlook the impact of robots on the jobs that remain. Today, if a worker assembling components has a daily quota of 100 units to fill, he can, for example, work flat out and assemble 60 in the first half...
...four. "They can do much more than we thought," says one teacher. At suburban Chicago's New Trier Township High School, 57% of the students took extra courses last summer, mostly for the fun of it. At Detroit's Cass Technical High School, A-average Senior Harley Shaiken, 16, spends 37½ hours a week in classes that range from qualitative analysis to enriched English literature. He works on the school paper, studies three hours every night, never watches TV and does not own a car. Why does Harley work so hard? "Not to get the grade...