LABRST 2M03 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Time, Google, The Tech (Newspaper)
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Technology is about to explode on a lot of up with the upcoming innovations: safety lottery (site, once a new technology comes online, the quickness at which it spreads. Horses were then replaced by cars, trains, etc. Most blacksmiths lost work, but then new jobs were created in steel-making firms, rubber industry for tires, electrical jobs: printers, hand-set typing. Used to be a highly skilled trade and the employees had to be literate. In 1910, printers became replaced on a large scale because of automation. The cost of putting out a newspaper went down dramatically. There were more jobs with employees using the presses however, it"s now blu collar work, not highly skilled: white collar jobs in printing were still around if you were a writer/ journalist. This time will we see a large scale change: robots, different that other technology advancement ex. Boundless innovation means a machine can figure out how to do work if it"s repetitive: complex work.
