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ESSAY
Subject: Division of labor
CRITICALLY DISCUSS THE HUMAN REPLACEMENT EFFECTS OF NEW TECHNOLOGY. TO WHAT EXTEND IS IT POSSIBLE TO REMOVE HUMANS FROM WORK ALLTOGETHER?
Technology is maybe the most major factor that determines the rate of development of modern societies. The rapid evolution of technology started around 1940s, when computers begun to emerge. In the beginning computers were used only for calculations and were impractical. For less than seventy years, technology developed so rapidly, that now our society is totally dependent
on it. This dependency and to some sort addictiveness generates some really basic question like "To what extent is it possible to remove humans from work altogether?" or "Is it possible that machines can overtake human beings and become their masters".
The answers to these questions cannot be definite because there are a lot of factors that influence the cooperation between human beings and technology in general. In my opinion, however, technology should only serve to perform automated processes and management of information, but the decision-making and development of new ideas should be left to humans.
I think that technology should serve two main purposes: automation and information. Production processes, nowadays, is common to be performed by machines. This is effective in terms of quality, cost, time and control of the process. A good example may be the rapid development of the automobile industry. It is hard nowadays for us to imagine a car manufacturing plant using people to assemble the vehicles. In this, respect technology offers possibilities that human cannot physically meet. On the other hand, the producti ...