My Rantings and Other Non-Sensical Thoughts

I watched part of a movie the other night called The Apartment. It's about this guy (Jack Lemmon) who loans his apartment out to guys at his work so he can get a promotion. It's from 1960. He works at this insurance company in a room full of desks & typewriters. That got me to thinking. Was there an uproar in America when elevator operators were laid off due to technology? When the people who make typewriters were laid off due to technology? When switchboard operators were laid off due to technology? When grocery clerks were laid off due to technology? (That last one's just starting to happen now). There is still a huge uproar about outsourcing and I can't figure out if that's because of the people affected (I know that's why I care about it) or because of the fact that jobs are going to foreign countries. In all my examples, they were due to technology, not to cheaper labor overseas, but it was still something to think about while I watched that movie. It was a pretty good movie too, what I saw of it anyway. It's been running on Turner Classic Movies. It's weird to see actors who I've only known as older (Like Jack Lemmon & Shirley Maclaine) as very young.

posted by Chris O. @ 6/26/2004 11:16:00 PM