These automate tools for text minin

These automate tools for text mining have renewed the debate over the broader social and economic impact of information technology. In the case of the legal profession, the shift from manual document discovery to e-discovery might mean that one lawyer would be able to manage work that once required 500. The newest generation of software, which is able to detect duplicates and locate clusters of documents on a specific topic could reduce head count by another 50 percent. According to David H. Autor, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the U.S. economy is being “hollowed out” Automation is putting a brake on the growth of higher and middle –level jobs. New jobs will primarily be generated at the bottom, of the economic pyramid. Autor notes that technology may not increase unemployment, but, “the harder question is, does changing technology always lead to better jobs?” Autor doesn’t think so.