Effects of Technology on Society

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Discusses ways in which Information Technology (IT) has replaced the Industrial Revolution in importance. Impact of economic life, production and product. Revolution in communication via the Internet & Email. Contends IT Revolution has polarized the developing world & the developed world causing a digital divide. Problems of environmental damage.

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"An Overview of the Effects of Technology on Society


The Industrial Revolution is generally regarded as ushering in the forces of modern technology technologies as diverse as the steam engine, the cotton gin, the reaper, vulcanized rubber, and many more (Taylor, p. 3). When engineers consider technology, however, it is important to recognize that such simple technological tools as the wheel and the lever and the pulley were in common, everyday use for hundreds and thousands of years before the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s. Over the course of the past 100 years, as Timothy Taylor (p. 3) has commented, man has employed various mechanized technologies to subjugate nature s forces to man, and to develop machinery, chemistry and chemical processes, navigation and flight, agriculture and all forms of manufacturing by means of which..."

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