Technology, the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry, has impacted our everyday lives since the beginning of time. As the centuries go by the impacted has become more dramatic, where is back in the 1400s the inventing of the printing press allowed the mass production of printed books on a proto-industrial scale, where is now the inventing of the phone has allowed millions of people to stay connected worldwide. The impacts of technology in the 21st century can be associated with the book Lyddie by Katherine Paterson, this book directly focuses on industrialization and the industrial revolution .The industrial revolution was the rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain in the late 18th
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One way the book Lyddie by Katherine Paterson displays the creating of job opportunities is because Lyddie Worthen is an impoverished Vermont farm girl working on her family farm that is soon to be sold. To pay off the debts of the farm, Lyddie is sold off to work at the at Cutler's Tavern as a housemaid, there she meets a fancy dressed woman who tells her about high-paying jobs working on looms at mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. “ You’d do well in the mill, you know, you’d clear at least two dollars a week...It’s hard work, but maybe easier than what you do here ”( Paterson 25 ). This shows how because of the industrial revolution more jobs have become available in the factories with better conditions and better pay. The impact of technology in the 21st century creates more job opportunities as well because despite the constant modern fear that robots are eventually going to take all of our jobs, a study by financial services company, Deloitte, has found that technology has created more jobs in the past century than it has destroyed. They found that rather than making human workers redundant, technology has simply shifted work into other areas, for example rather than having to work from dawn until dusk, we now rely on machines for a lot of necessary manual labour, with rising wages, workers now have the time and money to do leisure activities, resulting in a fourfold
One way the book Lyddie by Katherine Paterson displays the creating of job opportunities is because Lyddie Worthen is an impoverished Vermont farm girl working on her family farm that is soon to be sold. To pay off the debts of the farm, Lyddie is sold off to work at the at Cutler's Tavern as a housemaid, there she meets a fancy dressed woman who tells her about high-paying jobs working on looms at mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. “ You’d do well in the mill, you know, you’d clear at least two dollars a week...It’s hard work, but maybe easier than what you do here ”( Paterson 25 ). This shows how because of the industrial revolution more jobs have become available in the factories with better conditions and better pay. The impact of technology in the 21st century creates more job opportunities as well because despite the constant modern fear that robots are eventually going to take all of our jobs, a study by financial services company, Deloitte, has found that technology has created more jobs in the past century than it has destroyed. They found that rather than making human workers redundant, technology has simply shifted work into other areas, for example rather than having to work from dawn until dusk, we now rely on machines for a lot of necessary manual labour, with rising wages, workers now have the time and money to do leisure activities, resulting in a fourfold