With the increasing use and development of new technology, many machine are new able to do the work which people used to perform. Do the advantages of this trend outweigh the disadvantages?

In the contemporary world, the rapid development of technology has infiltrated almost all aspects of our lives, entirely revolutionizing certain industries by automating and digitalizing them. Resultantly, a multitude of professionals have been superseded by robots. It is my contention that technology is a multifaceted phenomenon with merits and demerits simultaneously.

To begin

with, technological advancements have been playing an indispensable part in the massive transformation of manufacturing industries. To exemplify

this

statement, over the

last

century, the production capacity of plants increased drastically

due to

the substitution of the human workforce with machine power which is relatively faster, cheap to run and sustainable as compared to other alternatives.

Consequently

, these advancements brought about the parallel improvement of other industries, one feeding the other perpetually in order to make

this

world a sufficient place to live.

Furthermore

, another advantage of

this

technological takeover is that

machines

are renowned for their ability to produce many materials with almost zero blemishes, a feat

that is

often unattainable with human incorporation. Companies like Toyota and Amazon have replaced a huge number of their employees with robots with high production throughput to reach their heydays. Whilst their production capacity increased by almost tenfold, the quality errors have gone down to zero, offsetting their investment costs under the first two years.

On the contrary

, though many conglomerates derive massive benefits through exploiting the advantages of machinery,

this

trend has

also

a downgrading impact on humanity. It is evident that if

this

propensity to replace humans with

machines

continues

further

on, presumably a big majority of the human population will be unemployed,

thus

, leading to a modern catastrophe which cannot be undone. Undoubtedly,

this

magnitude of an event will cause many financial crises to break out, eventually derailing the entire economy. In conclusion, despite the fact that the risk of an economic downturn is imminent if business owners keep substituting their employees with

machines

, the salient benefits of

machines

over humans outweigh its drawbacks.