"Mankind is now a slave to technology. ... On an imperative scale, modern day economics, travel, medicine and communication all stem from the use of post Industrial Revolution technology without these crucial elements, the world as we know it would collapse. ... Communications were remarkably effected by modern day technology due to the Industrial Revolution. ... Some experts cited point to a broader problem, technology addiction - obsessive usage of other technologies. ... The detrimental effects of mankind's slavery to modern technology have been causing an immense decline in the presen...

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Through this novel it can be clearly observed that issues such as technology, progress and the issue of drug use hold both relevance and irrelevance to modern day students. ... Progress and new technologies are always taking place in this fast changing world, whether it is during the Industrial revolution or the current technological revolution. ... The issue of technology and progress is discussed through out George Eliot's "Silas Marner", this can be seen by the Industrial revolution taking place and can be linked to today as the modern world is at the beginning of the technological rev...

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This invention led to most modern forms of transportation. ... Third, were the many tools and technologies at the time like steel, petroleum and coal. ... Not long after the many improvements of the internal combustion engine, it led to the invention of the modern day automobile by Karl Bentz and Gottlieb Daimler. ... In 1885 Gottlieb Daimler invented what most historians recognize as the first modern gas engine with vertical cylinders and gasoline injected through a carburetor. ... Without it and the many contributing factors that led to this invention, modern technology wouldn't have b...

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The whole city is equipped with high technology, so on and so forth. ... In most western developed countries, there are well-known modern cities. ... The consequence may be highly developed cities with advanced high technology but without history. ... There is a point of view that our modern cities should have distinguishing features and competitive ability. ... City is the center of politics, economy, science, technology, culture, education and etc. ...

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With modern innovations in transportation and manufacturing, the countries of Germany, Japan, and the United States seemed to evolve to the next level. ... Following the thoughts of the Minister of Finance, Count Witte, many western investors built factories with advanced technology in Russia. The Russian people using this technology greatly advanced their ways of production. From ideas and technology of the west and from Russia's ability to adapt to western influence, they became high ranking in the production of steel and petroleum. ... So with Russia's capability to imitate th...

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Modern way of life has nothing in common with the traditional one. ... To be able to examine these changes, one has to juxtapose traditional and modern way of life. ... In modern economies everything is based on industrial mass production and white-collar jobs have increased. ... In modern societies government is done indirectly and people have little participation in decision making. ... Moreover, traditional societies had limited technology, both in the production of food and in medicine, which caused shortages in the food supply and kept medicine incapable in dealing with most diseases. ...

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But not all the progress is from new advancement in science and technology but other developmental activities too. ... Before the modern age, ethnic cultures and traditional were widely practiced. ... Progress usually is the result of science and technology. ... People develop and improve technology to help solve the problem and lessen the work to make life more fun and easier. Because of this, people most of the time rely more on technology to do work for them. ...

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It is a unanimous agreement amongst more than most scholars that China and the Chinese civilization was the most advanced and powerful civilization during pre-modern times. ... Lin claims that as China had larger population size than that of Europe's in pre-modern eras, it made sense that technological innovation in China was accelerated in comparison (helped Chinese civilization to become more powerful and influential). ... The introduction of science focused institutions and the increasing integration between science and technology in Europe that arose from the scientific revolution a...

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Industrial Revolution is when the period from the 18th Century to 19th Century had a major changes in technology, agriculture, transportation, communication and social life. This period has seen as one of the major forces that revolutionised the Western world into the modern era and transformed the economic and social structure of Europe dramatically. ... Britain plays an important role in the process of industrialization as many and many technologies were invented. ...

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The 19th century was a time in the United States were America took a more modern stance to manufacturing. It started using more technology to produce more products with less work or human effort. This, however, didn't always mean that working conditions were easy for the people inside of these facto...

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The emergences of the post-industrial and post-modern ages have continuously driven down the lifestyle of the underclass. ... As a result of the natural progressions of technology, there was no formal source of income by which they could achieve a socially acceptable level of consumerism. ...

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The Industrial Revolution that occurred in the post-Civil War era had consequences for both business and labor. Some of these were good while others were very bad. But nonetheless, it paved the way for modern ways of living and making a living. Business in America was changed greatly by the secon...

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Effects of the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution is the name given to the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. About the same time that Europe was under going a revolution, America underwent an Industrial revolution where t...

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Effects of the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution is the name given to the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. About the same time that Europe was under going a revolution, America underwent an Industrial revolution where t...

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Modern technology and conveniences became prevalent in many homes. ... With the growing power of the industry, modern conveniences like canned food, dish and laundry soap, and contraception made it easier for women to not have to go to the market everyday, and allowed them to limit the number of children that they had to take care of. ...

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The period was also characterized by remarkable improvements in healthcare and much wider availability for cures for diseases even though the mortality rates remained high due to the lackluster medical research and technology approaches of the period. ... In contrast to the modern feminist theories, the gender relationships during the period when Dickens was writing David Copperfield reveals that woman was merely treated as home maker and she was supposed to have the abilities to keep a home. ...

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Most people would say manufacturing has always been around but looking at the bigger picture manufacturing is a new technology. ... This can be considered a modern definition because the idea of making and selling goods was in place long before machines were invented. ...

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