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WPIRG is a student funded â€"research â€" and educational organizaâ€" tion which constantly focusses on key issues such as our computer revolution . Although the 1981 film is British, the questions that it raises are just as vital for Canadians. It should be emphasized that the film and WPIRG are technology per se. However, they do gques tion the direction that the new technology is taking us â€" down an unstable path of deâ€" meaning work and disâ€" employment. Specifically, is new technology an inevitaâ€" bie part of real human progress? Will it soive all our economic probâ€" lems" Just what kind of leisure society will there be to enjoy? What will the work that remains be like? Companies that manâ€" ufacture and sell comâ€" puter innovations presâ€" ent them as objects which liberate people to â€"do more creative things. For example, an excerpt from a BBC2 programme presents a Centre for Human Achievement as an integral compo nent of the new British metropolis in which evâ€" eryone will be matched with their abilities. Doubtless the ineviâ€" tablity of these changes for greater fuâ€" lure pros‘gerity and a better life is always City supports (Continued trom page 1} better life is always implied by these corâ€" In a written brief to council ‘she wrote; *‘*Waterworks Theatre is born of my need to bring many exeu::s plays to the ic of my belier“t:lat Waâ€" terloo has the audience and talent to support a theatre of its own. live theatre company in the area for the past yearâ€"andâ€"aâ€"half. _ to â€" new emphasizes that leiâ€" sure in the new comâ€" munity is something in porations. BBCZ‘s Whose Progress‘‘ presâ€" ents an historical perâ€" spective by briefly tracing the massive postâ€"World War II U.S. investment in scientific research. As always, military prioerities made such investment worthwhile to the govâ€" ernment since lightâ€" weight equipment for military systems was desired. Soon the busiâ€" ness community recogâ€" nized the economic gain to be made with microelectronics. Throughout the 1960‘s and 1970‘s the British people were under a barrage of warnings about the dire consequences for companies that did not invest in word processâ€" ing and other new techâ€" niques to remain comâ€" petitive . ‘"Technology" and ‘inevitabke proâ€" gress" have |been so synony mous that a Xerox Corporation film for its employees comâ€" pares anyone who chalâ€" lenges the new changes to a "Luddite" of preâ€" Victorian Britain. Luddite protests were outbreaks of popâ€" ular discontent in the English Midlands about 1I811â€"18. With se vere dislocations brought on by the "proâ€" gress‘" of the industrial revolution, the anger of the disemployed was directed against the new machinery, much of which was deâ€" stroyed. (The name it self is derived from Ned Lud, a Leicesterâ€" shire man who demoâ€" lished two stocking frames). The future for many office and industrial workers now looks unâ€" certain. Office managâ€" ers intend to improve performance by impleâ€" menting â€" technological change . . Perhaps one third of all clerical workers will be. etiminated by word processors. This bleak future is ali the more serious for women since offices now provide the princiâ€" pal source of employâ€" ment for them. Indysâ€" trial robotization will have similar effects for workers in the manâ€" ufacturing sector. The notion that workers will no longer bave to do hard work ‘‘Somewhere beâ€" tween our annual forays to Stratford and the bigâ€"name roadâ€" shows of the Centre in the Square and the UW Arts Centre, J believe there is ak&l:gce for a different of theaâ€" ty." _ Mayor Marjorie Carâ€" roll called the theatre *‘*New Technology "a natural" more time to leisure is criticized. IHf work at present is the means to distribute the wage and to achieve some meaâ€" sure of dignity and perâ€" the disemployed at present and in the fuâ€" ture to benefit from new leisure time when they have little money at their disposal* ‘‘Forced idieness‘ who have lost their jobs due to new technology . easy Gargantuan problems which it raises. Howev â€" er, it does point out that since technology is made for human beings we have the right to design it differently if it is not doing what we want it to do. The means for a coherent strategy are not so much technological as they are political and ideological. Canadian workers who are displaced by computer technology often lack the opportuâ€" nity to train for new jobs related to the m a nufacture and maintenance of the equipment. Some new jobs are being created in this area but those who need jobs are more than Pkcly not trained to do‘them. Mary Eady of the Canadian Labour Con y ress‘ Women‘s Bureau has noted that Canadian employers are notorious in the industrialized world for not providing appren ticeships. In the past they were able to rely on immigration to solve their skilled worker needs. Women, youth, and unemployed older persons have lit tle hope of being trained by our employâ€" ers unless our govern ments or our workers can force them to do The lyrics of the clos ing song ring out loud and clear in denounâ€" cing the increasing strength of multinaâ€" tional corporations: Down in the silicon val ley ... Where seldom is heard A discouraging word Yesterday we won the west Tomorrow â€" we‘ll con trol the world International control... That‘s our plan for the future ‘ We did it to the Indi ans And now we‘d like to do it to you! for Waterloo. "‘It‘s the kind of thing we‘ve been talking about in our whole thrust for dealing with the core, having a vari ety of entertainment not only for residents but for tourists as well,"" said Carroll. / ‘Being a university city, it couldn‘t be a more appropriate place for a theatre."