8. Loss of employment

Inevitably, since ICT can automate many jobs and do them not only faster but also more accurately, then many of the old jobs have disappeared.

We no longer have typing pools full of secretaries, there is no need for an office full of clerks to calculate and count out weekly wages, there is no need for printers to manually typeset the newspaper pages. Many hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs over the last couple of decades.

Job loss is not pleasant; it affects peoples' self worth and creates all kinds of stress and disruption in families and society in general.