POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR BRANCHES AND CAMPUSES MULANAY, QUEZON BRANCH Jocel P. Malones BEED 2 ACTIVITY # 1. State at least 5 benefits of information age. It can improve relationships at home, work, and in social situations by deepening your connections to others and improving teamwork, decision-making, caring, and problem solving. It enables you to communicate even negative or difficult messages without creating conflict or destroying trust. Individuals regardless of their background status, education background or race can get access to information. Improved the quality of life since in minimizes the effort one puts in performing certain obligations and maximizes the time for leisure and relaxation. Improved medicine that has facilitated longevity of life among people. 2. What are the changes that happen during the industrial revolution. The Industrial Revolution shifted societies from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made solely by hand but by machines. This led to increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas. Like most great changes in human history, the Industrial Revolution has had positive and negative results. Generally speaking, the Industrial Revolution improved the lives of millions by making a great variety of goods more affordable and more widely available. Most importantly though, the Industrial Revolution provided new kinds of employment opportunities for people. But industrialization has also had less desirable consequences. For instance, it has led to great inequalities of wealth. Almost from the beginning, factory owners and businessmen became very wealthy, while most workers toiled away in factories and generally remained poor. The workers who lived through the early phases of the Industrial Revolution had an especially hard time. These workers worked long hours in dangerous circumstances. They received low wages and had little or no legal protection. And, industrialization has had a significant impact on our environment, too! The rise of the factory system resulted in a loosening of traditional family control. Sons and daughters now usually went to nearby towns to find work, and parents had less control over them. It was a more mobile society. Illegitimacy rates were rising. There had always been high instances of premarital sex (lots of pregnant brides in the early modern world), but now fewer social forces existed to force young men to marry the girls they impregnated. At the same time, the women on the margins of society were in some ways coing better - there were a greater variety of jobs, although they were generally low-paying. Women in factories were generally single or widowed; married women usually could afford to stay at home, and society was coming to prefer this. There was a basic trade-off in the Industrial Revolution for common people. Material POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR BRANCHES AND CAMPUSES MULANAY, QUEZON BRANCH standards of living were in some ways improving - more material goods were produced, so they were available at lower costs, and factories provided a variety of employment opportunities not previously available. At the same time, working conditions were often horrible and the pay was bad, and it was often difficult for unskilled workers to move to higher skill levels and escape the working class. The traditional protections of the medieval and early modern eras, such as guilds and mandated wage-and-price standards, were disappearing. 3. Write at least 5 disadvantages on the emergence of technology. Technology Causes Lack of Interest in Studying Increased dependency on technology Closure of high street stores in favour of online business Security risk in relation to data and fraud It may cause students to use unreliable resources for learning Reflections https://www.coursebb.com/2019/05/31/discuss-some-benefits-and-drawbacks-of-theinformation-age/?amp=1 https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/IndustrialRevolutionandtheStandardofLiving.html http://www.mrfarshtey.net/whnotes/Cha nges-IR.pdf
