15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL ECONOMIC EVOLUTION OF THE GLOBALIZED SOCIETY
E. Welfonder and T. Frederking
Department for Power Generation and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart
Allmandring 5B, D-70550 Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany
Tel. +49 711 685-6214, Fax +49 711685-6590
welfonder@ivd.uni-stuttgart.de

By means of a global social economic dynamic model the diversified reasons for the momentum of the technical economic development are analyzed. Under additional regarding of the resources and environmental exploitation as well as of the growth of population it is shown that a further increase of these three integral acting influences inside of the strongly intermeshed social economic society can be lessened mainly by ecology improving global restrictions. The applied investigation is based on time dependent data series taken from world-wide existing statistic data banks.
Keywords: increase of automation, globalisation, unemployment, growth of population, resources exploitation, sustainable evolution
Session slot T-Fr-A06: Ethical Aspects of Automation/Area code 6b : Social Impact of Automation