The Impacts of Technology on Businesses

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The rise of the Internet combined with modern technological advances the way businesses operate today. From a business’ organisational structure, to advertising, marketing, and communication methods, modern industries and entrepreneurs have discovered the benefits of using technology in the work place. The Internet has transformed businesses allowing communication to take place quicker as well as allowing the operation strategy changes day by day. However, a technology revolution is fast replacing human beings with machines in virtually every sector and industry in the global economy. A lot of workers have been permanently unemployed because of the change from labour intensive to capital intensive. Labour Intensive is where businesses rely more heavily upon labour whereas Capital Intensive is where business that rely more heavily upon capital equipment. As the long-term cost of using machinery is cheaper than having workers to generate output in a business, therefore a lot of businesses are based on capital intensive nowadays rather than labour intensive. A technology revolution is fast replacing human being with machines in virtually every sector and industry in the global economy. It has been affected the three economic sectors: primary, secondary and tertiary sector heavily. Primary Industry The Industrailisation period shows the impact of technology brought to primary industry heavily. The primary sector of the economy is the sector of an economy making direct use of natural resources. Industrailisation is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agricultural society into an industrial one. It is a part of a wider modernisation process, where social change and economic development are closely related with technological innovation. An example in the primary industry that has an effect by technology is the
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