What Is the Effect of the Rapid Evolution of Technology in Today's Society?
Technology is the new black. By that I mean, of course, that technology has become the necessity in the closet of 21st century society. It may seem hard to believe that just a decade or so ago the average person couldn't make a phone call from their home, or listen to their entire album collection in the most isolated spot in Yellowstone Park. Go back a little further and if there was a television show you wanted to watch, but you had to be somewhere away from a TV at the same time you were out of luck until it was repeated. The importance of technological breakthroughs for all aspects of American society cannot be underestimated.
Technology has become an especially important force in the workplace, affecting in profound ways the owner and management, as well as the labor force and, obviously, the consumer. The effect is different for each of those segments, but each effect is significant. The multitude of technological breakthroughs that have utterly redefined how we all live over the course the past decade have shaped society in a far more unique way than all the other technological breakthroughs of the past. The primary difference is that throughout most of the 20th century when the technological age really began, the inventions meant to make life easier were allowed to mature and be perfected before becoming outdated and replaced; that is most certainly not the case today. The most obvious example is the device that is increasingly becoming the symbolic icon of 21st century technology, the telephone. It is worth remembering the sole telephone used to place 99% of all calls in the early 1990s was essentially not particularly different from the same device that was used to make 100% of all phone calls in 1920s. By contrast, consider that a cell phone produced in 1997 is obsolete. After all, you can only use those cell phones to make calls; you can surf the internet or watch television or listen to music or make movies. The pace at which the technology can be
Technology has become an especially important force in the workplace, affecting in profound ways the owner and management, as well as the labor force and, obviously, the consumer. The effect is different for each of those segments, but each effect is significant. The multitude of technological breakthroughs that have utterly redefined how we all live over the course the past decade have shaped society in a far more unique way than all the other technological breakthroughs of the past. The primary difference is that throughout most of the 20th century when the technological age really began, the inventions meant to make life easier were allowed to mature and be perfected before becoming outdated and replaced; that is most certainly not the case today. The most obvious example is the device that is increasingly becoming the symbolic icon of 21st century technology, the telephone. It is worth remembering the sole telephone used to place 99% of all calls in the early 1990s was essentially not particularly different from the same device that was used to make 100% of all phone calls in 1920s. By contrast, consider that a cell phone produced in 1997 is obsolete. After all, you can only use those cell phones to make calls; you can surf the internet or watch television or listen to music or make movies. The pace at which the technology can be