How Technology Has Changed Our Lives.

drawrect MODERN AGE (1950-1985) After the siemens World War the Statesns began to prosper, millions of people were changing. The troops that were returning from war about 12 million served during the war years were going back in the hands. Most of these men were mere children when they signed on, some from rural America that never returned to run low the earth. Farming technology was being made to rejoinder act this problem. So much so that at the turn of the twentieth century 50 percent of the causeforce was on farms that provided the nations food.By the end of the 1950s only 7 percent of the workforce was working the nations farms. Hourly wages for selected industries, United States, 1950 1901 .. $ 0. 23 1918 .. .53 1935 .. .58 1950 .. 1. 59 SOURCE U. S. Bureau of tug Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey Manufacturing. (Bureau of aim Statistics) Yale Brozen writes Fear of automation fag be traced to four seminal fluids. One is establish on the assumption that there is a fixed amount of goods.The sulphur source of fear springs from the idea that automation or cybernation is something more(prenominal) than the latest stage in the long evolution of technology. The third source of fear lies in the fact that we be much more awake(predicate) of the people displaced by automation and concerned about them than we argon of the spic-and-span(prenominal) unemployed. Even while we reduce the amount of manpower needed to do a fixed amount of work does that fixed amount of work remain the same? As we all know this is non the case. As we free up manpower from integrity aspect we find naked and productive uses for that manpower. His words speak the truth wherefore as they do to sidereal day. It saves lives through the advocate it gives doctors. By controlling traffic signals in reply to traffic flows and reducing traffic congestion, it adds hours to the free duration of commuters every week. It helps scientists, with the aid of high speed data pro cessing to develop rising noesis that otherwise would not be avail fitting in our lifetimes. We are increase the scale of educational activities because mechanization, automation, cybernation, or whatever we choose to call our new technology, strings it possible to do more than we could formerly. With the coming of automation, men are able to do more and guard got more.Both sublime and mundane activities are being enlarged and the number of jobs has grown as a consequence, not declined. (Brozen) The second source of fear that the latest idea of automation or technology will become something more then what it was intended to be. mass were so obsessed with what the future would hold books and movies were made to cast this fear. scholarship fiction was used to depict future events that could occur. Films such as one that was released in 1968 2001 A Space Odyssey where an artificially intelligent supercomputer, HAL takes all over a space mission.Today some super computers are in use, are they anyway near being HAL? Some say we are acquiring close to true artificial intelligence, but we are far from HAL. The forrard source of fear of automation is that it reduces the demand for unskilled workers. This may be true in some instances but at the same time the demand for skilled workers will increase. As stated previously companies do their best to keep their employees. When possible they are retraining these employees to fill new jobs that become available because of the new technology. If this were true then the unemployment rate would tramp proportionately.If automation is added to a process and did the work of five people then five people would be unemployed. We know that this does not make sense. It has change magnitude productivity to the process not that it reduced people from the process. NEW kink (1985-Present) The year 1985 saw more technological changes, Windows 1. 0 is introduced here you rout out do more than just one DOS application at a tim e. Made by this little upstart IBM partner confederacy called Microsoft, it even comes with a calculator program. Some other wonders of 1985 is the first summary disk read only memory (CD-ROM) of none other than a Grolier Encyclopedia. apple was the big name in computers at the time and close businesses had one. To be up to date in the office the new Apple LaserWriter printer was the best and it only cost around $7000. The main grounds we call 1985 the sensitive Wave era is this, the first . Com domain name, symbolics. com, is registered by the Symbolics Corporation. (The People History) According to David Huether, chief economist of the National Association of Manufacturers, U. S. manufacturers are producing and exporting more goods than ever before. While manufacturing output easily outpaces the large U. S. economy, manufacturing employment, at 14. million, is at its lowest level in more than 50 years. (Williams) another(prenominal) place that has felt the effects of technol ogy is in the office, or white collar jobs. Michael J. Handel writes in a brief for SRI Intertheme Analyses of national data indicate that increased use of computers in the 1980s and nineties was associated with greater use of more-educated workers indoors industries. However, the direction of causality is unclear. It may be that both educational upgrading and greater computer use simply deliberate an independent increase in the number of white collar workers within industries, who are the most frequent computer users.It may be that the hiring of more-educated workers, ordinarily office workers, stimulates demand for computers rather than vice versa. In addition, the industries upgrading their educational levels coinciding with adoption of computers in the 1980s and 1990s also appear to have been upgrading educational levels before the widespread diffusion of computers. (Handel) There are many another(prenominal) ways to make a job better, faster, and safer. Every dayI see imp rovements to the work floor. There are many facets of the business that help with these improvements.Some of which are our Product Development Teams (PDT) that will follow the work to see if anything stooge be changed. They work closely with our Research and Development (RD) operations. These two areas have grown by 1000% in the last twenty years. Another area that has greatly grown is our engineering staff and related personal. In 1996 the skilled trades had two engineers to take all our requests to. We now have engineers for facilities, electricians, repairmen, nomadic equipment, power house, and toolmakers. In all we have become more effectual and more efficient in how we do our business of repairing the machinery in the factory.Everyone can be affected by technology no job is whole that same as it was in years past. Studies have been made to sort a job for automation. They are based on three dimensions, receptiveness Stability Structuredness Some jobs are changing constant ly, I have seen buzzer booth operations change here in Illinois just over the last two years. The new faster E-Z pass lanes going into lettuce for one. I asked one of the booth operators how they liked them, one told me that it was all good. Their day is less stressful and they have hired more people in the toll way system.More people to monitor and maintain the equipment and make sure those that did not pay get those little notices in the mail. whole kit CITED Baughman, James L. Television Comes to America, 1947-57. Editorial. Illinois Periodicals Online (IPO) send. N. p. , Mar. 1993. 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