Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization. The word technology comes from the Greek technología (τεχνολογία) — téchnē (τέχνη), an 'art', 'skill' or 'craft' and -logía (-λογία), the study of something, or the branch of knowledge of a discipline.[1] The term can aeither be applied generally or to specific areas: examples include construction technology, medical technology, or state-of-the-art technology or high technology. Technologies can also be exemplified in a material product, for example an object can be termed state of the art.
Companies are downsizing because technology now does a job that a person once did. Good bye to the age old concept of people serving every function within a company. Consumers demand more for less, and the only way for companies to answer that call is to stay competitive by saving money and to fatten up the bottom line. This usually means a company must reduce it’s manpower as an effort to achieve this goal.
Still, with all of what today’s technological advancements have to offer, there are some areas that need improving, such as the automated phone system. I really get annoyed with some of these systems. They bombard you with a vast array of options and menus to choose from. "If you would like to speak to a customer service representative, please press one now." Beep. "I’m sorry, but no humans work here. Please choose another option." Beep. "I’m sorry, but that option is not offered. Please try again." Beep, beep, beep... "You seem aggravated and this system isn’t designed to address that. Please call back later when you aren’t so hostile." Doesn’t anyone just answer the phone anymore?
I also get annoyed with the pre-screening that some of these automated phone systems do. They ask for your phone number and when you are able to speak to a real life person, the person asks for your phone number again. What was the point in the system asking me for my phone number if it didn’t do the live person any good? Should I be expecting this automated system to call me someday and say "Hi, Mike. How’s the wife and kids? If they are fine, please press one now"...
Don’t you just love it when the automated phone system keeps you on hold for a lengthy amount of time. A recorded voice, finally, interrupts the elevator music and says, "Please continue to hold. We’ll be with you shortly. If you would like to continue to hold, please press one now." The voice encourages you the way a Lamaze Coach encourages a woman giving birth: "Okay. Just a little longer now. You’re doing great. Breathe. Breathe. Okay, now push..."
Soon we’ll all be living like the Jetsons and everything in our lives will be automated. Rosie the Robot will be serving up your favorite dish while Astro embarrasses you by licking himself in front of company. The future won’t be all bad, though.
With all the media about the recession and car plants, closing down, car plants have suffered from technology greatly. A car plant use to require a lot more people to make vehicles in the past than it does now. Most of its cars are made automatically, with just a few employees doing the work. I read somewhere that this car manufacturer use to employ 5000 employees in the past and now with technology advances it went down to 1000. This just shows that technology is silently getting rid of employees slowly as the technology improves, pretty soon it will just be all automated.
As I said earlier these self check outs are becoming increasing popular, and in the near future you will probably not see a cashier, stores are everywhere and if there are no cashiers there will be many people without a job, and we will miss the personalized service that some great cashiers give when we visit the store. I’m sure all of you had some great conversations with some of those people operating the tills, and also the help some of them offer
Robotic gas pump, some places still have a Full Service gas station, which this will eliminate, what this is, is its a robotic arm fueling cars. This will eliminate the jobs of those gas attendants at gas stations, and there are many gas stations in the world, and around each town.Blackberry, IPhone, and PDA’s now are taking many jobs, now CEO’s do not need personal assistants taking there emails, and calling them telling them important things, now a CEO can have there emails come directly to there phone, and reply back, they also have the ability to tell the whole company current notes anywhere they are, and also companies now have central servers with calendars on there phone programed for special times, and days of the week they have o be places. Of course the good thing about this, is that you can be on a business trip and always have communication with the business.
There are so many more examples, but this just makes you think, when you go to one of these places already testing/operating these new technology advances, it makes you think at the amount of people who will affected by this, usually affecting the low income earners, and the CEO’s profiting. But at the same time, these robots do not spend money like those people who worked at those jobs did, so this will also have some affect. And in all those examples I posted, there are probably millions/billions of people working in those fields around the world, and making it difficult for most to go back to school to re-lean.
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