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18 技术革命的重要性及其对社会的九大影响 Imagine what will happen when the cost of a long distance telephone call becomes as low as the cost of a local call? Or, when you can get a driving license at a time and place of your own choosing? Or, when you can bank from the comfort of your own living room? In some countries, ICT is already making these happen. Many believe that the current technological revolution may in time exceed the Industrial Revolution in terms of social significance. New technologies transform our lives by inventing new, undreamed of things and making them in new, undreamed of ways. The introduction of new technologies can have the following effects on society: 1. Initial productivity slowdown and delayed productivity payoff from the new technologies 2. Destruction of human capital 3. Technological unemployment 4. Widening disparities in the distribution of income, which tends to be temporary until the supply of labor catches up to the new mix of skill requirements 5. Big changes in regional patterns of industrial location 6. Big changes in required education 7. Big changes in infrastructure 8. Big changes in rules and regulations 9. Big changes in the way we live and interact with each other | 
