Technology Domination INTRODUCTION
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What do you think of a world without work? An endless vacation, or wondering how you will put dinner on the table? The possibilities are endless. Derek Thompson, the author of “ A World Without Work” published in the July/August 2015 issue of The Atlantic, expresses the endless possibilities of how our future employment will be altered by technology. As I analyzed Thompson's article I noticed both his strengths and weaknesses. For instance, Thompson’s strengths are providing evidence such as history, statistics and professional opinions, but his ability to organize these pieces of evidence show signs of weakness.This paper will focus on the details Thompson uses in this article, as well how he contradicts …show more content…
September of 1977, “Youngstown Sheet and Tube announced the shuttering of its Campbell Works mill. Within five years, the city lost 50,000 jobs.”, Tthis was do to automation. Youngstown went from “a model of the American dream” to “economic disruption, psychological and cultural breakdown.” “The caseload of the area’s mental-health center tripled within a decade.” Thompson continues on with theories of what a world without work would be. A world like that writers, economists and researchers have jointly …show more content…
I could only imagine the tedious things in life that are being taken over by technology today, that I do not realize. “In 1964, the nation’s most valuable company, AT&T, was worth $267 billion in today’s dollars and employed 758,611 people. Today’s telecommunications giant, Google, is worth $370 billion but has only about 55,000 employees—less than a tenth the size of AT&T’s workforce in its heyday.” This is crazy to me, the most valuable company today has just a fractions amount of the employees ofcompared to the most valuable company in 1964. With in 60 years technology has destroyed thousands of jobs for top companies in the world. This is a great example to show people how technology is really decreases the amount of work available to us. I can only see that number getting smaller and smaller. Five years ago the thought of having “checkout screens and the promise of driverless cars, flying drones, and little warehouse robots” did not cross my mind, and today that is the reality. Who knows how many jobs will be eliminated because of those advances. Henry Siu, an economist at the University of British Columbia brought up that statement, Thompson should have done research to find out how driverless cars and self checkout screens are effecting jobs, that information would have brought a prospective to his reader how day to day things we encounter are negatively effecting job availability.
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What do you think of a world without work? An endless vacation, or wondering how you will put dinner on the table? The possibilities are endless. Derek Thompson, the author of “ A World Without Work” published in the July/August 2015 issue of The Atlantic, expresses the endless possibilities of how our future employment will be altered by technology. As I analyzed Thompson's article I noticed both his strengths and weaknesses. For instance, Thompson’s strengths are providing evidence such as history, statistics and professional opinions, but his ability to organize these pieces of evidence show signs of weakness.This paper will focus on the details Thompson uses in this article, as well how he contradicts …show more content…
September of 1977, “Youngstown Sheet and Tube announced the shuttering of its Campbell Works mill. Within five years, the city lost 50,000 jobs.”, Tthis was do to automation. Youngstown went from “a model of the American dream” to “economic disruption, psychological and cultural breakdown.” “The caseload of the area’s mental-health center tripled within a decade.” Thompson continues on with theories of what a world without work would be. A world like that writers, economists and researchers have jointly …show more content…
I could only imagine the tedious things in life that are being taken over by technology today, that I do not realize. “In 1964, the nation’s most valuable company, AT&T, was worth $267 billion in today’s dollars and employed 758,611 people. Today’s telecommunications giant, Google, is worth $370 billion but has only about 55,000 employees—less than a tenth the size of AT&T’s workforce in its heyday.” This is crazy to me, the most valuable company today has just a fractions amount of the employees ofcompared to the most valuable company in 1964. With in 60 years technology has destroyed thousands of jobs for top companies in the world. This is a great example to show people how technology is really decreases the amount of work available to us. I can only see that number getting smaller and smaller. Five years ago the thought of having “checkout screens and the promise of driverless cars, flying drones, and little warehouse robots” did not cross my mind, and today that is the reality. Who knows how many jobs will be eliminated because of those advances. Henry Siu, an economist at the University of British Columbia brought up that statement, Thompson should have done research to find out how driverless cars and self checkout screens are effecting jobs, that information would have brought a prospective to his reader how day to day things we encounter are negatively effecting job availability.