Sunday, April 17, 2016

Industrialization, robotics/technology, and art


Industrialization changed society dramatically in the U.S where a prosperous middle-class developed, cities became crowded and workers lived in unhealthful conditions. The more factories that were built the more people moved to cities to find work. Industrialization and urbanization was aided by new technologies in transportation, architecture, and more. It provoked rapid growth in cities, rapid demographic change, and increased the gap between rich and poor. While society has reared towards reliance and dependence on technology and such things like the internet and “robotization”, I still believe that there are jobs available. However, these jobs are more “tech-savy” ones that essentially cut out a proportion of the population that could be eligible. To say it’s a serious problem might be a stretch, but there may be some truth saying that now, technology can perform a lot of tasks that were done by hand for centuries. Basically, making human work sometimes not as needed nor essential when technology can simply to do it in a much efficient timely manner. As we saw throughout lecture videos, robotization, technology, and art are all fascinating, especially when they are all combined into one. As discussed in the lecture video, we can't look at robotics without looking at industrialization. Artists have been working with robots since the early 19020’s. Sci-Fi visions now seem almost cane.

In addition, we can think of these changes in the sense of the transition from print to digital as  sort of fast-forward replay on a multidimensional scale of what happened after Johannes Gutenberg invented printing by movable type over five hundred years ago.
Referencing Henry Ford in relation to industrialization is a big topic that most can recognize. During that time, cars were only meant for the wealthy. By developing an assembly line for workers he was able to pay them well enough to evolve into a middle class but it  created a lot of problems because of taylorism coming into the culture. Workers were treated as part of the machine and it was a fast movement of mechanisation. Turning to Karel Chapek who coined the term robotics we hear about the mechanisation of workers and how workers are being replaced by machines. This is closer to what we would call a cyborg.
On another and more present note, not only is it tough to keep up with living standards by maintaining a steady job, but it’s also difficult to land a well paid job, let alone a job in general. Meanwhile, technology hasn’t made things any easier supply people with jobs since they are able to take care of work that companies won’t have to pay people to do. In order to fix this, I believe in finding a way to work in unity with people and technology rather than people versus technology. Although, technology can do work in a timely manner and sometimes more sufficiently than humans, people like human interaction and communication. The customer service is the traditional yet beneficial number one seller.





Cybornetic organism-both cyborotic, biological, interactive systems



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