O MOVIMENTO INFORMÁTICO NAS ESCOLAS PORTUGUESAS ...

de parametrização e medida de críticas mais profundas:
«Contrary to expectations, the expansion of the information
sector has not always been followed by increases in a
nation's productivity.» (Cf. Dordick e Wang, 1993: 65.)
Por que é que as expectativas teóricas não se verifi-
cam? A resposta na mesma página:
• «The introduction of information technology
requires extensive worker training and debugging of the
equipment and software, which takes considerable time.»
• «The productivity gains are distributed across
the firm, at different times, thereby delaying signifi-
cant productivity gains.»
Mais adiante, os autores avançam outros tópicos inte-
ressantes:
• «As manufacturing adopts information technology
[...] higher speed and complexity will generate a need
for more skilled manpower in handling the tasks of
coordination and control.»
• «Voge found that the contribution of the infor-
mation sector to the productivity of the economy
begins to fall when the information sector passes 40%
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