Trust me I have lost count of number of Consumers who have gotten frustrated over excessive Technology upgrades;for what is essentially a very simple Buy/Sell Transaction.
There are very serious limits to how much training/retraining of workers you can do today.
This is something which none of the "technology will solve all our problems" crowd is willing to talking about.
Trust me I have lost count of number of Consumers who have gotten frustrated over excessive Technology upgrades;for what is essentially a very simple Buy/Sell Transaction.
There are very serious limits to how much training/retraining of workers you can do today.
This is something which none of the "technology will solve all our problems" crowd is willing to talking about.
We'll, it's bad news for clerks but haven't we been talking about RFID for years now? Asking when will it make it to stores and a more consumer-oriented environment. We can't block technology from doing a very limited job - we just need to be sure to train our workers better.
Unfortunately all the Data that I am currently seeing tells me that we are heading for a slowdown;sometime around October or so.
The best comparison;I can give you(for why your thinking won't work) is if you compare the World's Economy with a Boeing 747 Jet;then the Four Engines are America,Europe ,China and the rest of the world.
We can fly with One Engine down reasonably well;but with Two engines down we see a slowdown and with Three Engines down we definitely Hit recession territory.
Right now we are One Engine Down[Europe];but it looks like we are about to see a synchronized slowdown with both China and America slowing down at the sametime.The one remainng Engine wont be enough to power the world Economy ahead.
China in particular is very worrisome.
Australia,Brazil,Canada,Chile,Most of Africa,Most of OPEC exporters,Most of South East Asia,Japan,South Korea and Germany are all totally dependent on Chinese growth.
If China corrects the Bubble we see in these countries (In Wages,Currencies and Housing Valuations)will collapse dramatically with Catastrophic consequences for their Longterm futures.
There are very few other countries which can survive and grow in such an environment-They need to have robust Domestic Economies for that[US,Indonesia ,Scandinavia,Mexico,Some of the OPEC exporters and India come straight to mind].
@Ashish, I am likely in the minority but the economic glass is half full and not half empty. Economists talk about the slowing or slow-growing economy but they were the ones who set us up in the first place with false expectations! Is anything likely to grow year-after-year simply because of demographic changes and consumption pattern?
Why should China's economy, for example, continue to increase upper single digit or even lower double-digit every year? The more this happens the greater the likelihood that other parts of the world are being starved of growth. When these regions experience a slowdown in demand or implement policies that initiate growth in their own geographies, this would naturally result in a possible slowdown in some other locations.
I don't believe an economic slowdown is necessarily a bad thing. During times of a slowdown new ideas are given the opportunity to be planted and grow. When firms manage constant growth, they lose the opportunity to conceive of new ideas.
@tech4people, I agree with you. These are not good times for sure. When do you think things will start improving ? Many people are predicting 2013 will be year of recovery do you agree ?
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