Microcomputers: The Key to an Easy and Peaceful Transition to 20th Century Expertise by the Third World

Abstract

One of the major problems in the less developed parts of the world is the necessity to change the traditional craft activities of these countries. They have been advised to use more sophisticated technology including large main frame computers from the advanced countries. This policy has traumatic results on the economy and wellbeing of the population and is not the correct policy.The wide vistas opened up by microprocessors could be the means of providing personal computer power to the primary operative without the necessity of any major change in his method of working. There are an increasing number of examples from the developed countries of microprocessors being placed at the workface rather than with management. This type of application permits the production worker to carry out his activities more efficiently without changing his basic activity in the first place.The article discusses the significance of this develooment at the craft workface in the developed and underdeveloped world and its effects on production and industrial morale.