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Since the 18th century technological advances have replaced people in the workplace. With today’s technology this process is happening at a greater rate. Technology is increasingly responsible for unemployment. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

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Technological advances always have an impact on
people
 at
work
. Sometimes it can mean that
people
 are no longer necessary in their job, but sometimes they make
people
work
 easier. We can define
technology
 as scientific knowledge used for practical purpose in
industry
 and commerce. I would
also
 like to make a
further
 distinction between
this
 and high
technology
, which is electronic or information
technology
. In my view,
technology
 really began to have an effect on
industry
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 in the early
of
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the
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20th century. The result of
this
 was that certain
industries
 like the
car
industry
 did not really need as many
people
, as automated machines and robots were able to do jobs
such
 as painting the
car
,
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 or putting the
car
 together.
However
, if we now turn to look at the effect of high
technology
 on the workplace, in my opinion, there has been a different effect. It is true that computers are able to do some things that
people
 used to do and advanced in high
technology
 have made
people
’s lives better through improvement in communication.
For example
, now we have e-mail, MSN and some electronic tool to chat with friends or business partners.
In addition
,
people
 working in service
industries
 like banking use computers much more than pen and paper nowadays.
In addition
, some
work
 can be done from home, which means that
people
 do not
need
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 spend time travelling and can
work
 where and when they want to. In conclusion,
technology
 has resulted in unemployment in some traditional
industries
 like
car
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industry
.
On the other hand
, in other
industries
such
 as service
industries
,
technology
 has improved the way
the
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work
.
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