How Technology Effects Modern America – Us Wage TrendsEssay title: How Technology Effects Modern America – Us Wage TrendsHow Technology Effects Modern America – US Wage TrendsThe microeconomic picture of the U.S. has changed immensely since 1973, and the trends are proving to be consistently downward for the nations high school graduates and high school drop-outs. “Of all the reasons given for the wage squeeze – international competition, technology, deregulation, the decline of unions and defense cuts – technology is probably the most critical. It has favored the educated and the skilled,” says M. B. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report (7/31/95). Since 1973, wages adjusted for inflation have declined by about a quarter for high school dropouts, by a sixth for high school graduates, and by about 7% for those with some college education. Only the wages of college graduates are up.
Of the fastest growing technical jobs, software engineering tops the list. Carnegie Mellon University reports, “recruitment of its software engineering students is up this year by over 20%.” All engineering jobs are paying well, proving that highly skilled labor is what employers want! “There is clear evidence that the supply of workers in the [unskilled labor] categories already exceeds the demand for their services,” says L. Mishel, Research Director of Welfare Reform Network.
In view of these facts, I wonder if these trends are good or bad for society. “The danger of the information age is that while in the short run it may be cheaper to replace workers with technology, in the long run it is potentially self-destructive because there will not be enough purchasing power to grow the economy,” M. B. Zuckerman. My feeling is that the trend from unskilled labor to highly technical, skilled labor is a good one! But, political action must be taken to ensure that this societal evolution is beneficial to all of us. “Back in 1970, a high school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. Today all it gets is a clunker parked on the street, and a dingy apartment in a low rent building,” says Time Magazine (Jan 30, 1995 issue).
However, in 1970, our government provided our children with a free education, allowing the vast majority of our population to earn a high school diploma. This means that anyone, regardless of family income, could be educated to a level that would allow them a comfortable place in the middle class. Even restrictions upon child labor hours kept children in school, since they are not allowed to work full time while under the age of 18. This government policy was conducive to our economic markets, and allowed our country to prosper from 1950 through 1970. Now, our own prosperity has moved us into a highly technical world, that requires highly skilled labor. The natural answer to this problem, is that the U.S. Governments education policy must keep pace with the demands of the highly technical job market. If a middle class income of 1970 required a high school diploma, and the middle class income of 1990 requires a college diploma, then it should be as easy for the children of the 90s to get a college diploma, as it was for the children of the 70s to get a high school diploma. This brings me to the issue of our countrys political process, in a technologically advanced world.
Voting & Poisoned Political Process in The U.S.The advance of mass communication is natural in a technologically advanced society. In our countrys short history, we have seen the development of the printing press, the radio, the television, and now the Internet; all of these, able to reach millions of people. Equally natural, is the poisoning and corruption of these medias, to benefit a few.
>From the 1950s until today, television has been the preferred media. Because it captures the minds of most Americans, it is the preferred method of persuasion by political figures, multinational corporate advertising, and the upper 2% of the elite, who have an interest in controlling public opinion. Newspapers and radio experienced this same history, but are now somewhat obsolete in the science of changing public opinion. Though I do not suspect television to become completely obsolete within the next 20 years, I do see the Internet being used by the same political figures, multinational corporations, and upper 2% elite, for the same purposes. At this time, in the Internets young history, it is largely unregulated, and can be accessed
The Future
The world is a rapidly changing world, with vast potential benefits to humankind. There are other ways to improve, or at least improve in the future.
One common way, however, would be an online alternative to traditional media.
Digital publishing has been relatively recent, though it is still necessary. It is also being used by major corporations and their partners as information technology to deliver information, from news reports to education programs.
However, online, online publishing is already in its infancy. With little or no regulation for new technologies, technology and individuals will rapidly create a new and different form of medium for media. It will be easier and cheaper to become an internet professional than to purchase it online, and it will be harder to become a publisher, because of the new costs to acquire, manage, and publish.
There is no shortage of new ways we can learn about the world, and have new ways of interacting with the world. One of the most notable examples, with the help of computer games and apps, is a world where people can talk with each other about their personal activities such as how long they have used a certain app or website, which are on their iPhone and iPad both, and their social media accounts (“friends”).
And one new one will be how best to communicate with our media. A world where individuals can, on any subject, have a variety of interactions to discuss, with any type of language available.
Technology that improves the way we communicate has the potential to dramatically transform an existing media.
One of the benefits to the digital media industry is that the new ways it can be used online are already widely adopted in the world. There are social media accounts available as well, which allow one to meet anyone and make calls with them in the future, as well as to communicate more generally through text and phone calls, often by phone. The latter process is the new use cases for our media.
Digital media has yet to be a fully developed technology yet, but with a growing amount of effort and attention being put towards changing the existing systems so we can benefit greatly from it, it is obvious that the future of our media will also be an online alternative.
More news, articles, and content
In today’s world, many different types of news are disseminated to everyone on the internet, with news stories of other times and groups. Some media sources are in need of daily readers and are thus able to spread the news, without needing to pay a penny to be heard. Many other media outlets, like newspapers, magazines, magazines, and websites, offer online content in which only the editors are involved. For every news story published, there will be a page devoted to the story itself. When a journalist writes the article for the first time, the next page begins with a comment. This helps everyone in any newsroom know they should have read the article