Because we have been talking so much about change in the work place I was thinking it was inportant to know why this change is happing and how . Scientific development, which has occurred in technological changes, has many positive aspects such as making today’s life more convenient and easier than before. For example : The innovations such as the Internet “open a window to the world”. Today people can find out what’s happening in the world without leaving home by “googling” on the Internet, meet friends by connecting to the Skype, etc.
Also , cell phones give an opportunity to avoid futile waiting, to be in touch with others, and to be aware any time if something happens with relatives or friends. These instances show that today’s generation has many things that our parents didn’t have, so many devices and gadgets that make life easy and more convenient.
According to an article in the New York Times “Is the Era of the Motorcycle Over?” by Frederick Seidel, November 5, 2011, the enjoyable thing such as riding motorcycle was replaced by electronic devices such as iPad, iPhone, MacBook, etc. Motorcycle sales were reduced; especially sport motorcycles became less buying, “Young riders were not buying motorcycles of any kind, and especially, it seems, not sport bikes.” ; the new generation became more passive and are more interested in staying home and playing computer games or “going” on the Internet, “Jeff Nash, a gentleman and one of the great Ducati racebike tuners in America, and a racer himself, deplores the passivity of the young who would rather be home with their iPads playing computer games than astride the red-meat lightning of an 1198 Superbike blazing down a Texas highway making that unmistakable growling deep Ducati sound.” After reading this article I started to think about how technical progress influenced on today’s society and in the work place .
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