Advances in Technology

Over the years technology has become more advanced and has become a big part of our everyday life. Technology increasingly plays important roles in education, medicine, and communication. While technology becomes a bigger part of our life it has caused some bad side effects in jobs, communication, education, agriculture, and safety.

Advances in technology have changed healthcare worldwide. In some areas of the world where there are not enough doctors to serve large populations or where it can be difficult to reach patients in remote areas, Telemedicine helps doctors and patients to interact with one another without being in the same room. Vital information can be collect by locally trained technicians using automated equipment then transmitted to the doctor. When the doctor meets with the patient by satellite video connection, it is not much different from a typical doctor’s appointment. New technology has also made medical equipment less expensive and portable. A new application turns a typical smartphone into an ultrasound-imaging machine. This allows doctors serving the under privileged or in remote areas to image a patients kidney, liver, and arteries with their phone. Technology has also made monitoring the heart of a patient with heart disease much easier with Wireless Implantable Heart Monitors. The device, which is 15mm long and 3.5 mm wide, lets doctors monitor a patient’s heart 24 hours a day from miles away. This provides early warning of problems that might cause a medical emergency. Patients wearing a heart monitor have had 30% fewer readmissions to the hospital. Reducing medical expenses as a 2 % benefit.
For most of us, technological advances have changed the way we communicate. Of the 7 billion people in t...

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...e combine harvesters and mechanical threshers have enabled a smaller workforce to harvest more food. Additionally farmers are using Global Positioning Systems or GPS to track their production. Large temperature and humidity controlled storage facilities have allowed farmers to harvest large quantities without risking spoiling.
It is obvious that changes in technology will continue to impact the workforce and the training that will be required to fill these jobs in the next decades. Many future jobs will focus on computer and engineer technologies.
“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -” ― Heraclitus. Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher. He said this over 25 hundred years ago and it is still true today. Technological changes bring us new opportunities and benefits as well as obsolescence and negative side effects. They are both anticipated and unforeseen.