Technology As Compared to Science Term Paper

Many things we take for granted in modern life are the result of the
Industrial Revolution. We no longer have to sew our own clothes, make
everything we eat from scratch, and we have access to a greater array of
cheap consumer goods. People no longer have to work from sundown to sunup,
farming for food, sewing, weaving, and fighting to stay alive. We now have
greater leisure time, but also the things we produce during our work life
are no longer our 'own,' in contrast to an agrarian societies where people
own the food they produce on their lands, and make only the clothing and
things they need to survive. We receive wages for the goods and services we
provide to strangers. Instead, what we do at work is often very different
than how we pursue in our private lives-one reason that the Industrial
Revolution is often said to have created private life.
Discussion 2
The rise of cities during the Industrial Revolution, describe how
technology actually contributed to the growth of cities during this time
period, a new concept in comparison to the common living on farms.
Technology enabled large factories to quickly produce goods, and
fueled the demand for a high volume of workers. Workers flocked to cities for employment, especially because farming was less and less profitable.Technology could accomplish in minutes what took days to accomplish by
hand. However, rather than working for their own enrichment, or the
enrichment of their families, now people worked for strangers, and were
forced to rent, rather than own property, and to live in cramped quarters
near greater numbers and a wider array of people, all of whom they never
would have been acquainted with living on a farm.
Discussion 3
Urban living could often be lonely, because people had left their
families and local culture. But urban societies also produced a new,
industrial culture. For example, the cities of the major nations of the
world, like New York, Paris, and London, are often said to have their own
unique characters, because of their ethnic diversity, as distinct from the
national culture. Also, people in cities often live differently and perhaps
more similarly to other international urban dwellers than rural dwellers in
the same nation-people in cities live in small quarters, often do not
bother to use a car, socialize outside rather than inside of the home, live
streets away from the major financial, fashion, and artistic hubs of the
world, and thus are more 'cosmopolitan' in their collective culture as a
result......