Its beginning obscured by unemployment caused by the world economic slowdown, the new technological unemployment may emerge as the great socioeconomic challenge of the end of the 20th century.

• 新技术出现带来的失业问题，尽管起初被全球性经济衰退所引起的失业现象所掩盖，但有可能成为20世纪末社会经济的重大难题。