TJ RS 2018 — Questão 65 · Vocabulário

Instrução: As questões 57 a 68 referem-se ao texto abaixo.

1. ____ In the 1970s and 80s despite dramatic advances
2. in computer power and investment in IT, productivity
3. rise ____ down at the level of the whole U.S. economy,
4. and often within sectors that ____ heavily in IT. While the
5. computing capacity of the U.S. increased a hundredfold,
6. labor productivity growth decelerated. This paradox ____
7. as a perceived discrepancy between measures of
8. investment in IT and measures of output nationwide.
9. ____ Many observers deny ____ meaningful "productivity
10. paradox" and others, ____ acknowledging the disconnect
11. between IT capacity and spending, view it less as a
12. paradox than as a series of unwarranted assumptions
13. about the impact of technology on productivity. In the
14. latter view, this disconnect is emblematic of our need to
15. understand and do a better job of disposing technology.
16. Some point to historical parallels with the steam engine
17. and with electricity, where the dividends of a
18. productivity-enhancing disruptive technology were
19. reaped only slowly, with an initial lag, ____ the course
20. of decades, due to the time required for the technologies
21. to diffuse into common use, and to reorganize around
22. and master their efficient use.
23. ____ As with other technologies, an extremely large
24. number of initial cutting-edge investments in IT were
25. counterproductive and over-optimistic. Some modest
26. IT-based gains may have been difficult to detect amid
27. the apparent overall slowing of productivity growth,
28. which is generally attributed to a variety of non-IT
29. factors, such as oil shocks, increased regulation
30. or other cultural changes, a hypothetical decrease in
31. labor quality and a supposed exhaustion or slowdown
32. in non-IT innovation.
33. ____ Although there is no clear evidence that IT
34. significantly increased overall productivity, the 90s
35. saw evidence of a delayed IT-related productivity jump,
36. arguably resolving the original paradox.
37. ____ The fact is, however, that the broader issue of what
38. measurable factors best explain the dramatic productivity
39. ups-and-downs of the past two hundred years, as well
40. as whether the rate of productivity growth is more
41. likely to increase or to decrease in the decades ahead
42. or not, remains a subject of contentious study.

ADAPTED FROM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Produc-tivity_paradox. Acesso em 05/05/2018.

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