CSOC 880 Information Technology and Society

RUNNING HEAD: SOCIETY VERSUS TECHNOLOGY AND AUTOMATION 1
Technology, labor, and automation
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SOCIETY VERSUS TECHNOLOGY AND AUTOMATION 2
Technology, labor, and automation
Technology is changing in this digital world. The way people are dependent on the
latest gadgets, the best, and the fastest computers. Technology has benefits that are tangible
and intangible to people (Elm, 2013). The importance of technology in a business
environment, educational systems and industrial operations is efficiency. We see technology
all around us; we are part of this process of letting machines and robots control our daily
activities with ease. Example of current technological advancement includes communication
tabs, laptops, I phones, and robotics.
Labor can be, physically, mentally and product types that are currently in work and
employment. The companies and manufacturing factories that produce products and services
for consumers have changed. It supplies workforce and services to turn materials into
finished products. Likely, workers or the laborers get wages and salaries for their
performance and tasks done over a period. To meet consumer's demand, the employer has to
use the labor, land, entrepreneurship, and capital as factors in production to accomplish
his/her expectations and objectives.
Automation systems have changed industries and equipment operations such as
processes in factories, machinery, aircraft, and networks. The advantage of having
automation is to increase productivity, and more efficient use of raw materials (Jacobs
&Yudken, 2004). Nowadays, the accomplishment of tasks and responsibilities is what
automation is all about, the way systems of technology and manufacturing operates. Safety
and production is the main focus that automation assists in business to increase profitability.
Automation and technology affect the society in a meaningful way, whereby people
are controlled and manipulated in doing their tasks and activities. Technology gives us the
chance to finish our deadlines on time, the contract at ease and responsibilities without

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question. The world is depending on the automated systems that make us lazy and relaxed.
Unfortunately, a society which allows the workforce to replace by machines is doomed to
have failures in their governance, family ties, and social circles. Labor as a force to develop
and assist in the manufacturing or raw materials to finished products and service has to be
implemented by people, not robots. Automated systems are affecting the youth generation by
confusing them of their responsibilities given to them. Critical evaluation and research show
that in the next two decades, the universe would overturn by robots and automated systems.
The prediction of journalist Nick Carr that we will regret allowing machinery to misuse us.
Understanding technological trends in nations, there has to be interactions and
coexistence between society and robotics. To describe the below diagram on how Canada has
been affected by technology and automation. The danger of industrialization is real and
affects nations.
The world is growing, and we have to embrace the changing situations that come with
it. The annotation of the above shows the capabilities of robotics to interact with humans.
Workers lose jobs to robots, and there have been a lot of resistance and worked strikes that