How Technology Has Changed Our Lives.

drawrect MODERN period (1950-1985) After the Second World War Americans began to prosper, millions of people were changing. The troops that were returning from war some 12 million served during the war years were going back in the workforce. Most of these men were mere children when they sign(a) on, some from rural America that never returned to work the earth. Farming technology was being gravel to fore underwrite act this problem. So much so that at the turn of the twentieth century 50 sh atomic number 18age of the workforce 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 stemma U. S. bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey Manufacturing. (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Yale Brozen writes Fear of mechanisation can be traced to 4 stemmas. One is based on the assumptio n that there is a fixed measuring rod of goods.The second stemma of fear springs from the idea that automation or cybernation is something to a greater extent than the latest stage in the pine evolution of technology. The third source of fear lies in the fact that we atomic number 18 much more aware of the people displaced by automation and concerned about them than we are of the other unemployed. Even while we quail the amount of manpower needed to do a fixed amount of work does that fixed amount of work remain the same? As we each hold up this is not the case. As we free up manpower from one aspect we find new and productive uses for that manpower. His words speak the truth indeedce as they do today. It saves lives through the aid it gives doctors. By controlling transaction signals in response to traffic flows and reducing traffic congestion, it adds hours to the free time of commuters every week. It helps scientists, with the aid of high speed data bear on to develop new knowledge that otherwise would not be available in our lifetimes. We are change magnitude the scale of educational activities because mechanization, automation, cybernation, or whatever we choose to call our new technology, makes it possible to do more than we could formerly. With the coming of automation, men are able to do more and have more.Both sublime and sublunary 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. People were so obsessed with what the future would hold books and movies were made to cast this fear. Science allegory was used to depict future events that could occur. Films such as one that was released in 1968 2001 A Space Odyssey where an mawkishly intelligent super estimator, HAL takes over a space mission.Today some super computers are in use, are they anyway near b eing HAL? whatever say we are getting close to true artificial intelligence, but we are far from HAL. The forth source of fear of automation is that it reduces the demand for unskilful 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 educate these employees to fill new jobs that become available because of the new technology. If this were true then the unemployment rate would raise 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 increased productivity to the process not that it reduced people from the process. NEW wrap (1985-Present) The year 1985 saw more technological changes, Windows 1. 0 is introduced here you can do more than alone one DOS application at a time. Made by this little upstart IBM follower company called Microsoft, it even comes with a calculator program. Some other wonders of 1985 is the first compact disk take aim only memory (CD-ROM) of none other than a Grolier Encyclopedia.Apple was the big name in computers at the time and most businesses had one. To be up to date in the office the new Apple LaserWriter pressman was the best and it only cost around $7000. The main reason we call 1985 the New Wave geological 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 larger U. S. economy, manufacturing employment, at 14. million, is at its last level in more than 50 years. (Williams) Another place that has felt the effects of technology is in the office, or white collar jobs. Michael J. Handel writes in a brief for SRI International Analyses of national data present that increased use of computers in the 1980s and 1990s was associated with greater use of more-educated workers within industries. However, the direction of causation is unclear. It may be that both educational upgrading and greater computer use simply reflect an free lance 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, usually office workers, stimulates demand for computers rather than vice versa. In addition, the industries upgrading their educational levels cooccurring with adoption of computers in the 1980s and 1990s also appear to have been upgrading educational levels before the general diffusion of computers. (Handel) There are many ways to make a job better, faster, and safer. Every dayI see improvements to the work floor. There are many facets of the business that help with thes e improvements.Some of which are our Product learning Teams (PDT) that will follow the work to see if anything can be changed. They work closely with our Research and increase (RD) operations. These two subject fields 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, mobile equipment, power house, and toolmakers. In all we have become more potent 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 completely that same as it was in years past. Studies have been made to classify a job for automation. They are based on three dimensions, Receptiveness Stability Structuredness Some jobs are changing constantly, I have seen toll booth operations change here in Illinois just over the last tw o years. The new faster E-Z pass lanes going into Chicago 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 chartered 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. WORKS CITED Baughman, James L. Television Comes to America, 1947-57. Editorial. Illinois Periodicals Online (IPO) Project. N. p. , Mar. 1993. 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