"May be the number of patents that are being produced has to be increased, to generate enough jobs to overcome the producctivty gains caused by new technology?"
What productivity gains? So far as I can tell, it doesn't take any less time to get anything done, yet people spend more time not doing it. Especially in IT, where it seems that the primary goal of the next generation of developers is to find ways to create as much accidental complexity as possible so as to keep their seats warm as long as possible...
hmm, somehow it seems, your view is based on a blind skepticism of new technology than facts. I could be wrong, and wouldn't mind being proven wrong if its based on reason, lets see.
Can you list some things that take more time now than before? Things that take more effort now than before?
What productivity gains? So far as I can tell, it doesn't take any less time to get anything done, yet people spend more time not doing it. Especially in IT, where it seems that the primary goal of the next generation of developers is to find ways to create as much accidental complexity as possible so as to keep their seats warm as long as possible...