America--On the Edge of Abundance

Duration: 59

Year Published: 1965

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Explores the far-reaching economic and social consequences of the increasingly automated and computer-oriented society in the United States as viewed by British television. Traces America's growth from an agricultural base to a manufacturing society and focuses on automation. Shows immense problems of retraining and suggests that leisure will become the new business. Concludes that U.S. values must be reexamined.

Complete Record: Explores the far-reaching economic and social consequences of the increasingly automated and computer-oriented society in the United States as viewed by British television. Traces America's growth from an agricultural base to a manufacturing society and focuses on automation. Shows immense problems of retraining and suggests that leisure will become the new business. Concludes that U.S. values must be reexamined., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.