America Beyond 2001 | Information Technology Workers, 2010

Farmers working in offices? Surgeons “operating” from thousands of miles away? Welcome to work in 2010.

Information technology—infotech for short—consists primarily of computing combined with telecommunications and networking. Infotech also includes expert systems, imaging, automation, robotics, sensing technologies, and mechatronics (microprocessors embedded in products, systems, and devices). These interconnected technologies are moving out of the office and across the landscape to reshape how workers do their jobs—on farms, in offices, in factories, in hospitals, and...

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