Don’t Waste Time!!!!

October 19, 2007 at 5:30 pm · Filed under Moena Nishimura

I came to realize that this week’s lecture was revolved around the industrial revolution, and the invention of technology that would save our time and increase production for convenience. We studied the inventions of…

-assembly lines: Ford invented the assembly lines, which would let the workers focus on a specific task in a factory, and they perform these tasks as the product is sent down on a conveyer belt. Taylorism is thought to be parallel to this idea, because it also dealt with having workers with their specific ability, dividing up the work, and decreasing interruptions in the work. Thus, the workers do not have to do as much work, as they are just required to stay in their sections and focus on their task. Not only does this process take less work, but it also increases production, which means less time, more efficient!

-movable type: This was invented in the west in 1450 by Johannes Gutenberg. Until this day, communication was based on oral process. Because of this new invention, news spread much faster, with less work for the people to do. This cut the time for ideas and information to spread. Movable type became popular as communication became much faster and more efficient.

-robotics: The ida of robotics was introduced by Czech writer Karel Capek. Humans invented these robots for various purposes, such as programming robots so that they will do work for us, play part in the arts, take care of us, and just for companion. For example, Memex is the leading intelligence management solution for security in computers, businesses, etc. We have these robots doing all of the works for us to decrease our imput and to take the work load off of our shoulders. We depend on these electronics daily in our lives. However, these advancements of robots are getting creepy, as humans are able to produce artificial intelligence, and the robots are becoming more human-like. It will be interesting to find out at what rate robots will become more and more common, as to having a robotic maid in all of our homes, cooking, cleaning the house and taking care of the kids.

-cars/airplanes: The futuristic ideas came about involving cars and airplanes. Obviously cars and airplanes play key parts in our everyday lives, to take us places, without using our natural ability to walk everywhere. It is much more efficient and time conserving, as it will only take about 10 hours to get to the other side of the globe on an airplane! We are so habituated to these inventions, that we rarely recognize the convenience of cars and airplanes, we should be more grateful for these innovations…

-computers: When computers were first invented, they took up a whole room, with thousands of wires getting tangled up all over the place. Computers work by computing, and will do a lot of mathwork for us that we are not willing to do with paper and pencil in our own time. Now there’s multiple computers in every home, and all of the parts fit in such a small space, like in a macbook!

All of these innovations are ways to save our precious time and let machines do all of the work for us. This leads to the result of this generation being the laziest generation in all of time…

http://www.citrinitas.com/history_of_viscom/press.html
http://www.memex.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/dea453_653/ideabook1/thompson_jones/Taylorism.htm
http://inventors.about.com/library/bl/bl12.htm

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