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- Title
Automation in the Aviation Industry.
- Authors
Flood, Katie
- Abstract
There is an evolution of machinery that is matched with the evolution of each type of society (Deleuze, 1990). The beginning of the relationship between man and machine was one of the most important consequences of the Industrial Revolution (Urry, 2007, p 93). For centuries man has wished to fly like the birds. The first flight which lasted a mere 12 seconds was made by the Wright Brothers in 1903. It shows little resemblance to the inter-continental schedules of modern airplanes. Today the aviation industry is involved not only with the transportation of passengers and goods but also space travel, drones, weapons of war and terrorism to name a few. Alvin Toffler in Future Shock (1970) cautioned about the rapid rise in technology and society's inability to cope with it. Automation in the aviation industry already has many outcomes; lack of service and accompanying loss of jobs in the tourism/aviation industry, programmed bombings directed from afar, automatic pilot in planes well before the driverless car and much more here and to come. What will be the outcomes?
- Subjects
HUMAN-machine relationship; AUTOMATION; PASSENGERS; LAYOFFS; DRIVERLESS cars; SPACE flight; AIRLINE industry
- Publication
Global Business & Economics Anthology, 2022, Vol 1, p1
- ISSN
1553-1392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.47341/GBEA.20127