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What’s New - Science and Technology

As a new initiative of our GP Tuition Programme, our blog writing segment will feature interesting issues to steer students into exam-critical areas of discussions. We believe that this blog writing will broaden various modes of thinking in our students and assist them in developing a depth of understanding in relevant topics. On the topic of Science and Technology, we will be focusing on the economic perspective by exploring how affects individuals and society. The online resources will provide you the content to help you understand better the impacts of Science and Technology from the economic perspective. The resources will impart substantial contents to help you be able to further develop your essay and AQ.

The particular issue below covers the economic implications of science and technology. Read on and find out more!

How does science and technology affect the economy?




This article is the final segment of a 5 part series covering Science and Technology. To ensure seamless reading, you may wish to start from the first segment of ‘How does Science and Technology Affect Our Lives’.

In this modern era, there is a growing science and technology demand for countries to boost their economy. Science and Technology intensify production levels across industries and economies through the means of new product technologies. The economy strives with the advantages of these technologies which in turn spurs improvements in our personal skills. Corporates and government also stand to gain from this development, reaping benefits such as productivity and advancing more ambitious goals. While Science and Technology seemingly bring about many positive impacts to the economy, it in fact also creates various problems for individuals and society where there may be an increase in skill incompatibility for workers, displacement of jobs and over-reliance with the use of Science and Technology. Therefore, with such an expansive development of science and technology, the economy naturally experiences changes in the corporate and civil service areas.

Affect Our Skills


Given the momentous development science and technology has brought us, it is inevitable for productivity to pave its path in our life. We create systems and tools to raise our work efficiency and effectiveness while discovering new ways to reduce our limitations. Jobs that were labour intensive in the past has become more manageable with the help of machines to do most of the laborious work. In addition, developed countries are shifting their focus from labour intensive to capital intensive to help further improve their economy. Skills such as agricultural and manufacturing have been relegated and instead replaced by higher level skills such as service, technical, IT and management. This can be seen in developed countries like Singapore it moved away from low-end industries, particularly in manufacturing, to focus on value-added sectors such as biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.

Affect our businesses


With the heightened competitiveness of the globalised technological globe, business strives to adopt new practices to gain comparative advantages against rivals. As such, businesses aim to raise production capacity by introducing innovative technologies to lower cost and increase labour productivity. New business concepts become viable as the economy shifts to sharing economies and cooperative industries with help from the ability to harness the consumer and producer data. For instance, mining companies use big data to analyse mineral components of possible mines before they commence mining operations. Furthermore, banks are transforming their operations with digitalisation which can be seen from the creation of ETF funds to passively track stock indexes with the help of technology.

Affect our jobs


While science and technology create greater efficiency, it can threaten to upheave jobs especially from the labour-intensive industries as the rise of automation reduces labour requirement since rigid and systematic processes can now be emulated by machines. With the use of collaborative robots is growing rapidly, there is an increasing trend of robots specifically suited to any manufacturing task. One of the most widely known examples of a company doing this is a FANUC plant in Japan. As a result, if employees are unable to upgrade their skills, they will be shunned by the industry and become unemployed. Hence, there will be a loss of income and financial security among those working in the labour-intensive industries.

How else can science and technology affect our lives?

Aside from the economic factors of science and technology, our lives are also intertwined with other implications such as psychological, personal and social which is only possible through the sheer influence from science and technology. Discover how else our lives are affected by science and technology as we look deeper into this issue through our articles featured below.

Psychological


Science and technology have such an extensive implication on our individual psychology. As individuals become more reliant on the use of science and technology, it cultivates the way they think. Their personal dependence on technology cannot be stressed enough which can be seen by how they search for solutions to all their problems and look for instant gratification online by basing their happiness from the number of "likes" individuals get.

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Personal


Science and Technology can provide individuals a wide array of tools that can help simplify the daily task. From streamlining schedules to coordinating activities, the use of science and technology can help ease the burden of busy individuals.

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Social


Science and Technology can help bring society closer to one another as it provides us with an online platform to connect with people even without meeting one another. As such, people no longer feel alone as interaction is readily available with a click of a button.

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