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Technology’s Impact on Workers

Technology’s Impact on Workers | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

The internet and cell phones have infiltrated every cranny of American workplaces, and digital technology has transformed vast numbers of American jobs. Work done in the most sophisticated scientific enterprises, entirely new technology businesses, the extensive array of knowledge and media endeavors, the places where crops are grown, the factory floor, and even mom-and-pop stores has been reshaped by new pathways to information and new avenues of selling goods and services. For most office workers now, life on the job means life online.

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Online American workers say the internet and email are very important tools for doing their jobs, rating them higher in importance than landline phones, mobile phones, and social networking sites.

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Guys Like This Could Kill Google Glass Before It Ever Gets Off the Ground | Wired Business | Wired.com

Guys Like This Could Kill Google Glass Before It Ever Gets Off the Ground | Wired Business | Wired.com | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

The Segway. The Bluetooth headset. The pocket protector. What do these three technologies have in common? They all pretty much work as promised. They all seem like good ideas on paper. And they’re all too dorky to live.

 

Now, far be it from me to claim that nerdiness equals lack of popularity potential. But I contend that dorkiness and nerdiness are two different qualities. While nerdiness implies a certain social awkwardness that’s ultimately endearing, dorkiness connotes social obliviousness that opens you to deserved ridicule.

 

Guess which category Google Glass will fall under when it goes “mainstream?” Forget about the privacy concerns for a second. I don’t think you have to get that serious to recognize the inherent antisocialness of Google Glass. All you have to do is look at the guy in the picture at the top of this post. Or any of the rest of the guys on White Men Wearing Google Glass, a new Tumblr that serves up the data needed to transform the hypothesis “Google Glass is too dorky to succeed” into a proven scientific theory. Disagree? The floor is open for falsification. Start your own Tumblr: People Who Look Cool While Wearing Google Glass....

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Google Glass may never catch fire because of its cost among other things. And technology moves so fast, it may be irrelevant by the time it launches this fall. But you can be sure that "wearable" computers is an idea that's coming fast. It just won't be "one-size-fits-all."

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