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Are future jobs in danger?

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Introduction Is technology going to take over our jobs in the future? That is a question that is often brought up when talking about the future of technology. What are we to expect to see in the next couple of centuries? The topic has been talked and, argued about for multiple years and is something that I wanted to personally talk about Will we be replaced?     People often ask if our jobs will be replaced in the future by robots. According to a CNBC article that was posted in 2019, a study from Oxford Economics stated that within the next 11 years, there could be 14 million robots put to work in just China alone. They claim but in the year 2030, we could see Robots taking over 20 million manufacturing jobs. They predict that by 2030 more than 1.5 million jobs would have been lost to robots in the US, 11 million in China.      One example out of the countless other examples of this beginning to occur in modern-day is with Amazon. Amazon, which was founded by Je...
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Technology and Social Media around the world

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       Technology and its use vary between different areas of the world. Places like Japan have the highest Technological Expertise and other countries like China have very strict views on technological use within their country. Take Facebook, for example, it's one of the many other social media that is blocked within China. However, over here in New Hampshire, we pretty much have full access to FaceBook and other social media.      Back in 2020 word began to spread that President Donald Trump was planning on banning the popular social media app known as 'TikTok'. The argument was that TikTok was to be banned as it causes national security concerns. Just like other social media apps, TikTok collects data on its users. The main American concern was that the Chinese government will be able to access the data and possibly use it as leverage for spying or blackmailing on the U.S. President Trump said that in order for the app to stay on the US Market TikTo...
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Social Media's affect on our generation

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    The introduction of the Web back in 1989, brought new possibilities as consumers within the near future. With the arrival of social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube in the mid-2000s and then later Instagram and Snapchat in the early-2010s, more ways to share different forms of media were born. Whether it's music or a movie you just watched, you were able to share your experience and thoughts with friends, family, and even the world. And as a generation, we have utilized this technology to help make an impact in our world. How we as consumers are also producers      While I was watching Clay Shirky's TED Talk dubbed  "How social media can make history"  He brought up a very interesting point that I wanted to touch on here in this blog. He stated;  "The really crazy change here: it's the fact that they are no longer disconnected from each other, the fact that former consumers are now producers, the fact that the audience ca...
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Our reliance of technology during the Covid-19 pandemic

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The reliability of technology during the Covid-19 pandemic      The impact of Covid-19 was unexpected for all worldwide and left the world with a lack of in-person capability. This lead to measures, that needed to be made in the technology field as the world was going into "lockdown".  The unexpected but dramatic rise of technology used in the last year has made an impact on our everyday lives. Now we rely on technology more than ever with things ranging from school and work calls to shopping and more entertainment. Our reliance on technology is stronger than ever during these times. Many's introduction to Zoom           With the introduction of coronavirus, a way to communicate with others easily and professionally was needed, here came Zoom and, other web apps like Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. While founded on April 21st in 2011, Zoom didn't go public until April 2019, according to CNN. Its 'overnight success' was obviously due to ...
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