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The Reith Lectures: Leon Bagrit - The Age of Automation: Industrial And Economic Consequences

Leon Bagrit - The Age of Automation

13/12/1964

Industrial And Economic Consequences

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Leon Bagrit considers the problems and advantages of widespread automation in Britain. 

Sir Leon Bagrit considers the problems and advantages of wide spread automation in his fifth Reith lecture entitled 'Automation: Industrial and Economic Consequences'. 

Leading British industrialist and pioneer of automation Sir Leon Bagrit continues his Reith lectures. He is the Chairman and Managing Director of Elliott Automation Ltd, one of the first companies in Europe devoted to automation, and speaks on this topic in his series entitled 'The Age of Automation'. 

In this lecture entitled 'Automation: Industrial and Economic Consequences', Sir Bagrit asks how we can put automation into practice at a national level. How should it be assimilated in the lives of the British citizens? Sir Bagrit argues that the development of new machines will lead to a golden age of mass comfort and opportunity. Thus, he claims, technological advancement needs to be quickened and not slowed.

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Industrialist Sir Leon Bagrit explores how computing has changed the world we live in.

The Chairman and Managing Director of Elliott Automation, Sir Leon Bagrit, explores how the increased technological development in computing has changed the world we live in.

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