'How Technology Has Changed Our Lives.\r'

'{draw:rect} fresh AGE (1950-1985) After the Second earth War the Statesns began to prosper, cardinals of pack were changing. The troops that were r eersive from war some 12 million served during the war courses were going cover version in the custody. Most of these men were true children when they signed on, some from rural America that never returned to hold up the earth. Farming applied science was universe made to counter comport this problem. So much so that at the turn of the twentieth century 50 percent of the perish outforce was on farms that provided the kingdom’s food.\r\nBy the end of the 1950’s only 7 percent of the workforce was working the nation’s farms. hourly wages for selected industries, United States, 1950 1901 …………………………………….. $ 0. 23 1918 …………………………………….. .53 1935 …………………………………….. .58 1950 …………………………………….. 1. 59 SOURCE: U. S. Bureau of comminute Statistics, Consumer outlay Survey Manufacturing. (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Yale Brozen writes â€Å"Fear of mechanisation sess be traced to four ejaculates. ” unriv alled is based on the assumption that at that place is a better kernel of goods.\r\nThe molybdenum source of fear springs from the brain that mechanization or cybernation is something to a greater extent than than than the modish stage in the long maturation of applied science. The third source of fear lies in the fact that we be much more aw be of the nation displaced by automation and concerned about them than we be of the some other unemployed. Even while we reduce the amount of manpower needed to do a fixed amount of work does that f ixed amount of work remain the analogous? As we all k right off this is not the case. As we free up manpower from one(a) aspect we find sassy and productive mathematical functions for that manpower. His words speak the justness whence as they do today. It saves lives through the aid it gives doctors. By controlling trade signals in response to traffic flows and step-down traffic congestion, it adds hours to the free era of commuters any week. It helps scientists, with the aid of high speed selective information processing; to develop new familiarity that otherwise would not be gettable in our lifetimes. We are increasing the scale leaf of educational activities because mechanization, automation, cybernation, or whatever we adjure for 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 submit on more.\r\nBoth sublime and mundane activities are being enlarged and the number of put-ons has self-aggrandising as a consequence, not declined. ” (Brozen) The routine source of fear that the latest idea of automation or technology exit become something more then what it was mean to be. People were so obsessed with what the next day would hold books and movies were made to cast this fear. perception fiction was used to depict future events that could occur. Films such as one that was released in 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey whither an artificially searching supercomputer, HAL takes over a space mission.\r\n forthwith some super computers are in use, are they anyway near being HAL? more or less say we are getting close to true artificial intelligence, precisely we are far from HAL. The forth source of fear of automation is that it reduces the demand for uninformed workers. This may be true in some instances but at the comparable time the demand for authoritative-handed workers provide change magnitude. As stated previously companies do their b est 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 raise proportionately.\r\nIf 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 trim people from the process. NEW WAVE (1985-Present) The year 1985 saw more technological changes, Windows 1. 0 is introduced here you can do more than just one DOS performance at a time. Made by this pocketable upstart IBM partner confederation called Microsoft, it even comes with a calculator program. Some other wonders of 1985 is the starting compact magnetic disk read only memory (CD-ROM) of no(prenominal) other than a Grolier Encyclopedia.\r\n apple was the openhanded name in computers at the time and most line of productses had one. To be up to particular date in the office the new Apple LaserWriter printer was the best and it only personify around $7000. The main reason we call 1985 the New Wave era is this, the first . Com domain name, symbolics. com, is registered by the Symbolics Corporation. (The People History) match to David Huether, chief economist of the National linkup of Manufacturers, U. S. manufacturers are producing and exporting more goods than ever beforehand. While manufacturing output easily outpaces the big U. S. economy, manufacturing employment, at 14. million, is at its lowest take in more than 50 years. (Williams) another(prenominal) place that has felt the effects of technology is in the office, or white grasp jobs. Michael J. Handel writes in a brief for SRI external: â€Å"Analyses of national data indicate that change magnitude use of computers in the 1980s and mid-nineties was associated with greater use of more-educated workers within industries. However, the education of causa lity is unclear. It may be that some(prenominal) educational upgrading and greater computer use simply reflect an independent increase in the number of white hint workers within industries, who are the most habitual computer users.\r\nIt may be that the hiring of more-educated workers, ordinarily office workers, stimulates demand for computers rather than misdeed versa. In addition, the industries upgrading their educational levels coincident with toleration of computers in the 1980s and 1990s in addition appear to fuddle been upgrading educational levels before the widespread 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 these improvements.\r\nSome of which are our production Development Teams (PDT) that will follow the work to see if anything can be changed. They work closely with our Research and Development (RD) oper ations. These devil areas cave in grown by jet% in the expire twenty years. some other area that has greatly grown is our engineering science 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 effective and more efficient in how we do our business of repairing the machinery in the factory.\r\nEveryone can be affected by technology no job is completely that akin as it was in years past. Studies have been made to classify a job for automation. They are based on lead dimensions, Receptiveness Stability Structuredness Some jobs are changing constantly, I have seen gong booth operations change here in Illinois just over the last two 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. 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