Technology and Modern america

How Technology Affects Modern America The human race has been using technology since man first chipped stone blades to improve their hunting tools. Throughout history, humans have looked for better ways to meet their needs and satisfy their expectations. Technological evolution has advanced man from the dark ages to the enlightenment and from the agricultural period to the industrial revolution. Today we live in the "Information Age"; a time in which it seems computers permeate …

…economic growth, low unemployment, low inflation, high profits and soaring stock-market prices. Economists emphasized temporary factors for the performance, such as falling oil prices and a strong dollar. But that has all changed. Analysts now believe the economy's performance is not just a cyclical phenomenon or a statistical aberration. Instead, it represents a more deep-seated shift in the economic landscape toward the acceptance of technology as the most important aspect of the U.S. economy.