Careers:TRAINING

The training implications of the introduction of microprocessors was a major topic for discussion at a recent conference on microelectronics held for staff of the Food Drink and Tobacco ITB. Microprocessors are the tiny ‘chips’ of silicon which have the power and storage of the large computers of a few years ago. Their incorporation in both office and manufacturing machinery will have a major impact on all industries. Professor Tom Stonier, a leading expert on the social effects of micro‐electronics, predicted that there would be less emphasis placed on the value of capital and fertile land as resources: