Computerization could take over 7.5 million retail jobs, says the Guardian, citing a Cornerstone Capital Group study. Hardest hit could be the nation's 3.5 million cashiers, 73% of whom are women and, ...

Two related stories at New Scientist caught my eye this week, because they speak to one of the sad truths of the increased computerization of the economy -- the more we computerize, the more threats ...

The word 'computerized' used to promise something. A computerized process was efficient, rigorous, unfailing, and impartial. Computerization was beige magic that could be applied to any field of ...

Rapid advances in technology have long represented a serious potential threat to many jobs ordinarily performed by people. A recent report (which is not online, but summarized here) from the Oxford ...

Almost 47 percent of US jobs could be computerized within one or two decades according to a recent study that attempts to gauge the growing impact of computers on the job market. It isn't only manual ...

Recent reports bookend the promise and peril of computerization and the electronic medical record in health care. On the truly positive side, the Mayo Clinic and UnitedHealth Group have teamed up to ...

Juan Carlos De Martin proposes "the computerization of the world" as a new way of capturing the sentiment of "the Digital Revolution," positing that his own terminology recognizes an ongoing process ...

The assertion that computers improve productivity is generally accepted as economic dogma and is reflected in government, industry and media pronouncements. Computerization has been credited as a ...

PESHAWAR: The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has completed 83% computerization of land record in the province with the districts of Abbottabad, Mardan, Buner, Kohat, Tank, Shangla, and ...

The Bureau of Customs headed by Commissioner Ruffy Biazon was among the government agencies that received a tongue-lashing from President Aquino in his State of the Nation Address before Congress the ...