... $50 a month salaries, crumbling universities, shortages of books and lab equipment, and an intellectual wasteland. The European Commission had this... ...of work from factory and office to home and car. Machine tools and office equipment well into the 1980's were too cumbersome to install at home. ... ...omies are comprised 70% of services and are sustained by vast networks of telecommunications and transport. Advances in computing allow to incorpora... ... efforts among competing unions. Fields like Information Technology (IT), telecommunications, pharmaceutics, and biotechnology blur the lines betwee...