Employment

Technology has vastly improved employment and becoming increasingly important (and often essential) to peoples jobs. It has allowed ease in communication, increased workplace productivity and a variety of new job types to appear. As it continues to advance, technology shall play a significant role in determining the future of the jobs and how we work.

Printers -

Printers are widely overlooked when it comes to improvements brought to employment in the information age, but they are one of the most significant new features available. In the past, people would have to rewrite whole documents by hand or typewriter if they needed more than one copy of their work. This made the creation of posters, leaflets, applications and other papers needing to be reproduced an extremely tedious chore. Nowadays people have the ability to produce a vast amount of copies of work with hardly any effort at all, a feature which many people take for granted.

Humans Replaced By Machinery -

Due to the massive advances in technology, machinery is starting to replace human workers in a selection of jobs highly dangerous, inaccessible or easier for machines to be doing. A prime example of this in action are military robots, these are used activities for bomb disposal (over 10,000 roadside bombs have been defused by robots in Iraq), remote controlled operations (via the use of unmanned air vehicles) and more. Moving away from saving lives and violent uses; many factories which mass produce products have significantly reduced their staff numbers so as to accommodate large automatic machines for faster and cheaper production (uses can range from food production, to car manufacturing, to model building and more). In terms of inaccessible jobs, machines uses include: space discovery via probes, mining, volcanic surveys and more.