Back to the Future
Posted on June 6, 2008
Filed Under Economia, Sociedade, Tecnologia
Em 1996, por altura do seu centenario, a revista do New York Times pediu a Paul Krugman – e a outros – para se imaginar a viver em 2096 e escrever um artigo sobre o passado. O resultado foi este. Segue-se um excerto:
«Most important of all, the long-ago prophets of the information age seemed to have forgotten basic economics. When something becomes abundant, it also becomes cheap. A world awash in information is one in which information has very little market value. In general, when the economy becomes extremely good at doing something, that activity becomes less, rather than more, important. Late-20th-century America was supremely efficient at growing food; that was why it had hardly any farmers. Late-21st-century America is supremely efficient at processing routine information; that is why traditional white-collar workers have virtually disappeared.»
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