ASIN: B0097TWDWS
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 25
The author of this book is an 88 year old grandfather whose life has spanned the 20th century and the greatest explosion of technological development in human history. As a keen observor and participant he has watched individual technologies develop and the effect they have had on the lives of Americans. In particular, the social and economic problems that each technological development created. While technology created advantiges in affluent living that are evident to all, certain side effects occured which are not so evident, but were at the root of the 2008 crash and now threaten to create a world wide depression. For example, technological advances in health care, medicine,and food supply increased the world population from around 1.5 billion in 1900 to around 7 billion today, At the same time technology was automating production and replacing human labor. Finding a ...
