Chapter 6

Name: Mberwa, Mberwa                                                                                             Class time:

KEEP THIS TO 1-3 – PAGES LONG (excluding reference page)

Author: Sara Baase

Date of Publication:

Book: GIFT OF FIRE

Sections read: 6.1-6.3

1.       (Knowledge)Tell three interesting elements of this chapter:

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2.       (Comprehension) Summarize what is being discussed within this chapter?

Technology has taking away human work, and most of our works are oversea. Technology  has also took away banks taller jobs, now everything is done through computer there is no need to drive  to the banks and waiting in the line  to speak to a customer service  representative; when you can do it at your home. Therefore most of American jobs are move to other country because is cheaper and companies they don’t have health insurance or other expansive that they would have to pay here in the United State. Computer has eliminated a variety of jobs than any single new technological advance in the past years. Forrester research has estimate that 3,3million white collar jobs will have left the U.S for other country (Baase Pg316-21).

3.       (Application)Name a specific example or NEW solution for this type of problem/similar situation in society or that you have experienced – be specific and explain?

A new solution for this type of problems is to pass a law that would not allowed companies to move away from the united stated. We need to educated people what they need to know about the new jobs, because most of the people they don’t know anything about technology and how it work. People think that technology is taking away jobs but technology is not the problem we are the problem because we human are one who make the choice of how we need to use it.  Technology can be good or bad depending how we use it, if people are losing jobs is not because of technology  is because the invention of technology now people are think different it may have to do with technology  but is the people make bad choice, we use technology as an excuse for our problems in life.   For example millions of people in the United State die due to a car accident, people said because of   technology how about the person who was driving the car he/her mad a choice to drive the care didn’t make choice. It’s the same thing with jobs (Baase Pg322-24).

4.       (Analysis)Address ANY that apply. How can you compare one of the situations in this chapter to something that does not relate to computers, technology, or the Internet? Be sure to reference the chapter and your solution. What ideas NEW can you add to the issue that is being presented within the reading? Try to connect what you have by reading this article and how it applies to the stages in Bloom's taxonomy in 2 full sentences. 

Technology  has reduce  the employment  in the United Sated , but computer technology  didn’t cause mass of unemployment for those who continually predict mass unemployment  they only see the old preexisting jobs that are lost. For example we can compare this situation to the great depression in 1930s, during the 1930s there was no technology and millions of people were not working people lost their home and very thing they had. How come we don’t say that it was technology who took the work for the people in 1930s?  Technology didn’t cause the great depression in the 1930 economist and historian attributes the depression to many things such the choice make about our money or federal reserve banks  inept manipulation of interest rates (Baase pg312-13)

5.       (Synthesis) Address all that apply. Do you agree with what is being said within the article (Why/Why not? Back up with FACTS)?  What new conclusions can you draw about this (or other topics) after reading this material?

I don’t agree with this chapter because technology is not the cause of job lost in this country.

Is the people who cause job elimination because they have a choice and we build the technology therefore technology is not responsible is the people who make bad choice.

6.       (Evaluation) Address all that apply. Judge whether or not this topic is relevant in today’s society? Evaluate why you are viewing the topic in this manner based on your experiences. What ethical evaluations (see Chap1-1.4 for exp of Ethics) or decisions were made/can is assumed from this chapter?  What new ideas will you make after reading this chapter?

 This topic very much relevant in today’s society, because most of the people in America today don’t have jobs  people are having difficulty  on pay the bills at home due to a limited job in the United states. Today software makes decisions that use to require trained thinking human beings. For example computer programs analyze loan application and decide which one to approve. Computer take over many of the professional jobs.  It will take about 100 hours in a high paying job for human to design a layout for new housing developments, when a computer can do the same job within half an hours.  My  new idea after reading  this  chapter is that don’t let technology  tell you what you can and can’t do in your life we being living on earth  for century without technology we need to stand up and do  thing the way we use to without technology.