destructive impacts of technology
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Employment and the Economy:
Perhaps the most fundamental and direct impact that technology has on the everyday life of most people is economic in nature. The issue of jobs and unemployment is one that strikes a chord of concern in just about every person. While competition between machinery and human labor has long existed in the realm of physical tasks, it has only recently been introduced into the domain of mental work. Much as heavy machinery has eliminated the need for physical exertion on the part of humans, so too does modern technology, in the form of microchips and computers, bring with it the potential to eliminate mental drudgery. Does this mean, however, that humans will no longer have any purpose to serve in the world?
To gain some perspective on the issue, we can take a look at the past. At the beginning of the 20th century in the United States, jobs in factories and agriculture were disappearing at a rapid rate. But with the loss of those jobs came the potential for millions of new jobs and economic development in new industries. Indeed the macroeconomic trend of the past century has been overwhelmingly positive. Jobs have grown 10-fold in the United States (from 12 million in 1870 to 116 million in 1985) and the percentage of people employed has grown from 21 percent to 48 percent. Per-capita gross national product, as well as the average earning power of jobs, has increased 600 percent in constant dollars during the same period. Today, new manufacturing technologies are rapidly reducing the number of production jobs. The advent of new technology is projected to rapidly decrease the demand for clerical workers and other such semiskilled and unskilled workers.
How will the development of more advanced software affect our economy? Is technology bound to provide for economic growth? Is it possible for computers and technology to truly replace humanity?
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