Need Help Machine/ Technology Question… Im Looking For A Job/ Process That Used To Take A Lot Of People To D?
then got replaced by an inefficient machine during industrial revolution and is now evovled into an efficient machine with little or no human interaction needed and later has the potential to not need any assistance from humans at all. Its for a paper im trying to find an example. i was thinking about doing on regualr agriculture like a simple scythe to a huge tractor and so on but i was hoping to get maybe a better example if anyone can help.
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February 10th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Not sure how far back you want to go into history.
There are hundreds of examples.
Let’s take a real simple one: War – yes, war. In the very old days (think bible, Romans, our war of Independence) then came machines like tanks and planes and bigger bombs. It now took less people to cause major damage. In today’s time, all it takes now is one person to push a button and the death of millions will soon happen.
Farming – it took less and less people to farm as time went on. From horse drawn plows, to the steam powered tractors, and now with GPS a tractor can plow without anybody operating.
Moving goods from one place to another. A ship loaded with cargo arrives in port. The unloading was done by hand with the help of a pulley system, then came steam powered cranes, and now just about everything is shipped in those containers. It goes from the ship to truck or rail and on its way.
Here is a good one: Communications.
Many years ago the only way to communicate with somebody was to talk directly to them or via a messenger. The fastest that message could go was at the speed of a horse. Then came steam trains, steam ships. To get a message from New York to London still took a week or so. That letter could only go as fast as that ship. Then along came the telegraph, but it still took a lot of human effort to relay that message. Then we had the phone and now we have E-mail. Other than having to maintain the equipment, there is no real hard working human making it work. If you go to Japan for a vacation and you want to send your mom a letter or even a video of your fun time in Japan, then it all takes place in the blink of an eye with only you and your mom doing any work at all.