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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...

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...