wheelchairman
11-22-2005, 12:54 AM
Anyways, Here is an essay I wrote after having gone drinking all night. Last year. It's awesome and I got an A.
B. Discuss the importance of the computer in the workplace today.
The Overtaking
Are computers taking over? That’s really an important question when considering the importance of computers in the workplace. If Hollywood has taught me anything, it’s that computers can’t be controlled. Everything is becoming more and more technological. The IT industry is taking up more and more of what once was a source of employment for thousands of people.
It’s like back in the industrialization period of England, when weaving machines replaced the weavers, there was little work left for them. It created quite a crisis, because many just ended up starving on the streets. It was a rather harsh reality. We are witnessing the beginning of the technological industrialization. However it could go the other way, where it may even create more employment, or at least better skilled workers.
We can see that computers change the face of the workplace today. In one case they will almost completely replace most physical labor in the western world, leaving us with a workforce of secretaries to maintain and work these computers. Or in a rare case they may be used to increase the skills of the workers, like in the matrix when they downloaded into their brains.
The Terminator and how it is relevant today
According to the visionaries who created the Terminator trilogy, computers will eventually be completely self-sufficient. That was the main problem behind the films. They became self-aware and saw that man was a threat and had to kill him. In a way that is what is happening today. They may not be self-aware, but they are taking away the livelihood of thousands, nearly every day. It’s a rather slippery path we are treading. Perhaps it’s more important that we become self-aware. It is not computers that are threatened by man; it is man who are threatened by computers.
In Conclusion we can see that computers are taking an ever more important role in the workplace. Seeing as they basically are taking over the work of people. Technology and computer grow, while the work for the average man decreases, and it’s already causing serious problems in the United States. Everyone who was trained in IT has to learn a new trade if they have any hope for a job.
B. Discuss the importance of the computer in the workplace today.
The Overtaking
Are computers taking over? That’s really an important question when considering the importance of computers in the workplace. If Hollywood has taught me anything, it’s that computers can’t be controlled. Everything is becoming more and more technological. The IT industry is taking up more and more of what once was a source of employment for thousands of people.
It’s like back in the industrialization period of England, when weaving machines replaced the weavers, there was little work left for them. It created quite a crisis, because many just ended up starving on the streets. It was a rather harsh reality. We are witnessing the beginning of the technological industrialization. However it could go the other way, where it may even create more employment, or at least better skilled workers.
We can see that computers change the face of the workplace today. In one case they will almost completely replace most physical labor in the western world, leaving us with a workforce of secretaries to maintain and work these computers. Or in a rare case they may be used to increase the skills of the workers, like in the matrix when they downloaded into their brains.
The Terminator and how it is relevant today
According to the visionaries who created the Terminator trilogy, computers will eventually be completely self-sufficient. That was the main problem behind the films. They became self-aware and saw that man was a threat and had to kill him. In a way that is what is happening today. They may not be self-aware, but they are taking away the livelihood of thousands, nearly every day. It’s a rather slippery path we are treading. Perhaps it’s more important that we become self-aware. It is not computers that are threatened by man; it is man who are threatened by computers.
In Conclusion we can see that computers are taking an ever more important role in the workplace. Seeing as they basically are taking over the work of people. Technology and computer grow, while the work for the average man decreases, and it’s already causing serious problems in the United States. Everyone who was trained in IT has to learn a new trade if they have any hope for a job.