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TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS (PROS (BETTER KNOWLEDGE: thanks to new sciences and…
TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS
CONS
WORKERS EXPLOITED: workers are exploited by the factory owner, to work from dawn of Monday till the night of Saturday.
POLLUTION: general rate of pollution increased with smoke, ashes, black canals, bad smell and purple river.
LACK OF INDIVIDUALISM: this new world has create lack of individualism, due in particular by the great factories and societies that run our economy. Streets and inhabitants look like each other.
CHILDREN WORK: in lots of factories, children have been used as worker, since Industrial Revolution, for their little bodies, to take care of the machinary.
CLOUDS OF SMOKE EVERYWHERE: factories constantly pour out smokes and gases, that contaminate our atmosphere, causing global warming and greenhouse effect.
NEGATIVE USE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY: new resources have been used also in negative ways, like nucler power and for new war weapons and machinaries
QUICKLY BECOME OBSOLATE: technology world is a fast one. For everything exists a better version, that is faster and more efficient. So now our landfills is full of no longer used computers, broken phones and other things that are damadging our environment.
YOUNG SOCIETY: old people, not able to use new technologies, are cut off from work and from communities.
NEW WORLD OF LAZINESS: technology has made things easier than before, in particular with the advent of computers and internet, so people are forgetting the hard work of the past, don’t giving value to things
CREATION OF A SOCIAL DIVIDE: for many, technology is too expensive, causing a divide among population of people that can afford this and people that can’t.
Started with the Industrial Revolution, an economical evolution from the old agricultural system to the modern industrialized one, begun with the invention or the steam engine.
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PROS
BETTER KNOWLEDGE: thanks to new sciences and sectors, we know more than ever about us and the world we live on.
IMPROVE IN MEDICAL CARE: technology has led to a constant development in medical field. For example, surgical procedures have been made easy and efficient and we have dicovered cure for almost every disease.
BETTER COMMUNICATION: in the interpersonal sector, technology has improved the way of communicating, thanks to videochat, and you can collaborate with everyone everywhere whenever you want.
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MORE JOBS OPPORTUNITIES: technology has create an immense amount of new jobs, especially in buisness and economy. People are needed to work with, develop, maintain and control machines’ work.
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IMPROVE BUISNESS EFFICIENCY: new technology has had in impact on buisness first of all, causing a reduce in waste, time and costs for consumers.
PHYSICAL EFFORT NO LONGER INEVITABLE: thanks to new technology, workmen’s only duties demand attention and dexterity.
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FACTORY PRODUCTION: articles that before were only handmade now are produced in factories, with lower costs.
LOWER UNEMPLOYMENT: everyone, old, young, men and women, can find a job.
IMPROVEMENT IN LEARNING WAYS AT SCHOOL: schools have also adopted new technology at school, helping childrens and teens to grew up with this new instruments in a useful ways
GLOBAL WARMING: Thiago problem, caused bw the spread of toxic gases into the atmosphere, is one of the most serious consequences of technological progress. It’s also correlated with greenhouse effect.
Effects will be, for example, an increase in global temperatures, the melt of glaciers, more severe weather events such as droughts, floods, cyclones and hurricanes.