Stefan Mileschin

It seems that analysts at Gartner have been channelling the dead spirit of the founder of the Luddite movement, General Ned Ludd, and started seeing technology as bringing about the end of the world.

Gartner claims that there will be some major changes in technology soon, which will reduce the need for workers. This will bring about social unrest, the analyst firm warned.

Common thinking is that like the industrial revolution, which inspired Ludd’s Luddites, it's all about jobs. Not Steve Jobs. Jobs.

Daryl Plummer, a Gartner analyst at the research firm's Symposium ITxpo said the digital revolution is not following the same path. It is leading to a decline in the overall number of people required to do a job.

Outfits like Kodak, which once employed 130,000, are competing with Instagram's 13. Gartner also sees social unrest movements, similar to Occupy Wall Street, emerging again by 2014.

Tom Seitzberg, director of international IT operations for Genomic Health in San Francisco told Computerworld that he agreed with Big G.

Every society lives from the backbone from a strong middle class. If you get just a top level, a small amount of very rich people and a very large piece of very poor people, it leads to social unrest.

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