New Technology: Risks and Gains

Klimczuk, Andrzej and Klimczuk-Kochańska, Magdalena (2015): New Technology: Risks and Gains. Published in:

Abstract

New technologies are often radical innovations that change current activities across different areas of social and economic life. At the beginning of the 21st century, some of these technologies are information and communications technology (ICT), nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, and artificial intelligence. These innovations stimulate new opportunities for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, and thus can help solve social problems. But they also cause new social risks and inequalities.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Economic Growth and Technology; Information and Communication Technology and Pover; Technical and Vocational Education and Training; Technology Divide; Technology and Poverty Alleviation
• Subjects: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights > O30 - General; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights > O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes

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