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This 5 page paper looks at how technology has changed daily life. Changes throughout the centuries are compared with the immense changes that occurred during the twentieth. Advances in computer technology and biotechnology are emphasized. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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From the high middle ages on, there was intense travel, which escalated quite a bit each decade. But no significant strides were made until the first airplane was flown by
the Wright brothers in 1903 (Drachlis, Hede & Morris, 1999). Even in terms of communications, Marconi did not send his first transatlantic wireless message until the twentieth century came into
being (1999). Thus, history began to change and modernity was upon the world, with its high tech factories, the advent of Fordism and the changeover from the craftsman to the
wage laborer, something that all happened towards the end of the nineteenth century. Fordism for example, is a system of production--made popular at that time-- which enabled a manufacturer to
make products, on a large scale, for mass marketing purposes (McLeish, 1993). It was generally carried out through assembly line workers who were tied to their own specific duties and
had no need to move about the plant (1993). This, both figuratively and literally, kept the worker in his place. The term Fordism was coined for a method introduced by
Henry Ford who used it in assembling automobiles. Obviously, an automobile plant would be the best example to illustrate this theory. Fordism, as explained by Alain Lipietz (1992) is
the combination of industrial productivity and high mass-consumption principles. The crisis of Fordism was essentially a crisis of the labor process, because it dehumanized the worker, and ended up being
inefficient, even from the employers point of view (1992). Karl Marx had essentially said the same thing long before Henry Ford had his car factories in mind. Marxs contention
was that working in a capitalist system, in a factory, creates a sense of alienation for the worker. The worker is not able to take pride in his own creation
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