COMPUTERS AHEAD
Courses For Executives (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Aug. .31. Highly complex computers were forcing American business executives back to university in efforts to hold their jobs against increasing automation, said the McCarthy professor of economics at Victoria University (Professor F. W. Holmes) today. Summer scho'ols, plus three and six-month courses at university for executives, were being increasingly accepted as a means of keeping up with automation and expanding knowledge, said Professor Holmes, who recently returned from an overseas study tour. “The adverse effects of automation are no longer confined solely to those, who are relatively uneducated or unskilled.” said Professor Holmes. “The role and status Of many people occupying once, highly-regarded managerial positions is being drastically altered by the new technology, especially the increasing ability of computers.” Another factor forcing executives back to further training was the continuing advance and change in knowledge in many fields Of endeavour.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30534, 1 September 1964, Page 16
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