Karishma Lama
Professor: Justine White
English-1302-82701
28th April 2022
Computer Technology
(Introduction, Counterargument, and Refutation)
Bill Gates the co-founder of Microsoft argued that “If you are born poor it’s not your mistake but if you die poor, it’s your mistake”. Following the above famous quote, I work hard every day to make my life prosperous and beautiful. I came from a middle-class family, and I know what poverty is, I still remember my parent’s struggle to pay my school fees and feed us. It was the year 2007 that I saw the computer for the first time in my school. I have a flashback that my teacher told me a computer is a life-changing machine this makes everyone’s lives easy and creates lots of jobs so poverty will be eliminated from the world, and I was convinced by his argument that the computer has lots of advantages.
A computer is a life-changing machine for educated people, but it is a disaster for illiterate people who have no knowledge of computers and technology and there are more illiterate people than the educated ones in the world. Because most human jobs are robbed by the computer and technology. Not only that, according to Wu, Eddy’s “A World Without Work” book written by Daniel Susskind reveals that in the future AI technology and computers will continue to advance astronomically and become so powerful that they can do so many jobs that a human can do. In short, the future will be controlled by highly intelligent robots and computer technology (Eddy 56). So, computers and technology have big disadvantages which are unseen by many people and huge computer industrialists. They even have the potential of displacing intelligent people and doing all kinds of human jobs. Computer and AI technology create poverty and job losses. They can snatch people’s happiness and joy and pushed them into poverty without notifying them.
It may be true for some people that computers and technology can bring rise to unemployment in the future but for most people, it can bring massive opportunities with different variations. The article “Computer occupation: New Applicants new jobs titles” discover that computer occupation has been generating a lot of wide variety of jobs as it is advancing and growing every day. The work ranges from academic researchers to complex hardware or software systems to data entry workers and computer equipment repairers (“Computer occupation”). The changes in jobs variation also created new job titles like software developer, data analyst, quality assurance, and more. These jobs were integrated into one title software system so, only a few people were able to get this job now it’s changed. Furthermore, minimum college-level computer training was the requirement to get the IT jobs but now this culture has been changed too. People who were taught programming in a vocational school or have an associate degree in computer science can also get a job and they are trained in the work according to their needs. In reality. computers and technology are creating a lot of jobs opportunity of different kinds and helping to eradicate poverty.
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Moreover, computer technology began to expand and progress every year, creating many high-paying jobs. They have created more jobs compared to other industries and making people live comfortably in this inflation. According to Challenger, John A.’s article “Making Most of The Opportunities” Forrester Research estimates that 830,000 service sector jobs were created in 2005 due to computer technology and in 2015, the number of jobs is expected to reach 3.4 million. But this is only a small percentage from their point of view, of the total number of jobs constantly being created within the American economy. They have said that they are expected to create about 33 million jobs in the U.S. in the next seven years, all due to computers and technology (Challenger 19). Moreover, these jobs were created not only in the US but also all around the world, mostly in India, China, and some European countries. So, computers and technology have generated plenty of jobs of various kinds with good pay and they are growing even bigger every day which is a positive thing for everyone. During a pandemic people almost lost their jobs so, computer technology created an online working platform and saved millions of jobs, some are still working from home which is a new culture of working taught by computer technology. In short, computers and technology have saved people jobs even in harsh conditions like pandemics and generated different kinds of jobs every single day. So, it is the best invention that people have ever created.
In the same way, technology has lots of benefits than anyone ever imagine about it. The computer is used in all sectors, and it is very important, especially in health-related filed like hospitals, clinics, and labs. Computers are used to do X-rays, and operations, monitor patients’ heartbeats, maintain patients’ records, and many more. In the article “Perceptions and Use of computer-Helped surgery (CAS) in the orbit” there is an online survey of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Canadian Society of Oculoplastic Surgery, and British Oculoplastic Surgery Society and they found that computer Help surgery (CAS) is a very effective method to do surgery. In addition, it is good for patient safety because the survey proved that it has 80.8% of accuracy in surgery and 69% patient safety (Hussian, Ahsen, et al). Also, it can cost less money for the patient to do surgery and surgent can performed their work in less time effectively. So, computers and technology are very useful in health services, and they might have saved lots of lives, and doctors and nurses can work very efficiently and confidently every day saving thousands of lives with the help of technology.
Moreover, these computers and technology have changed the world if anyone has look back in 15 years. It has made people work easier and create tons of jobs in almost every field like delivery, online shopping, telecommunication, and so on. People can shop online these days comfortably and they can take the class online using their computers. In the article “Fit for the future in a digitized Europe through education” written by Grasedieck, Dieter said that these inventions of modern technology and computers were the dream of engineers a decade ago and they came into reality now and they have made everybody’s life easy and comfortable like this days window can be snap and shut down independently when raining and they hit the alarm when the thief approaches, fridge reminds when to buy milk, able to check blood sugar and pass data to the doctor if needed and so on (Grasedieck, Dieter 3). Furthermore, people can travel far and go for long drives with confidence. They don’t have to worry about missing their exit and destination because everyone has GPS on their phone. Also, they can reach out to anyone through phone calls and solve their problem while staying at home. Computer and technology also have created a job like uber, door dash, Grub hub, and many more and these types of jobs don’t need any high-level academic education. So, computer and technology has changed people’s lives and benefited them in all different ways and now people cannot imagine their life without computer technology.
Works Cited
Wu, Eddy. “A World Without Work.” Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith, vol. 73, no. 1, Mar. 2021, pp. 56–57. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.dcccd.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=149566392&site=ehost-live.
“Computer Occupations: New Applications, New Job Titles. (Cover Story).” Occupational Outlook Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Winter 1992, p. 13. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.dcccd.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9304260299&site=ehost-live.
Challenger, John A. “Making The Most Of Opportunities.” Vital Speeches of the Day, vol. 71, no. 1, Oct. 2004, pp. 19–23. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.dcccd.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=14962794&site=ehost-live.
Hussain, Ahsen, et al. “Perceptions and Use of Computer-Helped Surgery (CAS) in the Orbit.” Orbit, vol. 38, no. 3, June 2019, pp. 180–83. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.dcccd.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/01676830.2018.1490440.
Grasedieck, Dieter. “Fit for the Future in a Digitized Europe through Education.” Proceedings of the Multidisciplinary Academic Conference, Dec. 2015, pp. 1–12. EBSCOhost, https://search-ebscohost-com.dcccd.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=111482216&site=ehost-live.
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Justine White, Professor of Karishma Lama
English-1302-82701
28th of April, 2022
Computer Science and Technology
(Introduction, Counterargument, and Refutation)
Bill Gates the co-founder of Microsoft argued that “If you are born poor it’s not your mistake but if you die poor, it’s your mistake”. Following the above famous quote, I work hard every day to make my life prosperous and beautiful. I came from a middle-class family, and I know what poverty is, I still remember my parent’s struggle to pay my school fees and feed us. It was the year 2007 that I saw the computer for the first time in my school. I have a flashback that my teacher told me a computer is a life-changing machine this makes everyone’s lives easy and creates lots of jobs
