In the past, the pursuit of knowledge was limited to those who can afford it. Sir Isaac Newton was the son of a prosperous plantation owner and Charles Darwin’s father was a wealthy society doctor and financier. When being able to feed one’s family becomes a daily struggle, spending extra money to send someone to school tends to fall short on most people’s priority list. But as technology improves, the cost of food also drops, allowing people to focus on more than just what the next meal would be. We have come a long way since then. With technology growing at an exponential rate, it is exciting to see what changes it may bring. In the article “Transition: Technology Puts Power in the Hands of Many” by Sarah Murray, she said “This generation sees technology as leveling the playing field. …show more content…
The same could be said for people. Without a “solid foundation”, things like food, shelter, and cloth to wear, it is almost impossible to rise above their current situation. This is where technology comes in. Technology provides new opportunities for people with disadvantages because it is improving the standard of living. In Jim Carl’s Springer International Handbooks of Education he wrote “The expansion of public education and industrialization went hand in hand... Before the industrial age, provision of formal schooling virtually everywhere was scarce — dependent on tuition and fees, voluntarist, and usually limited to males… with seven out of every ten workers engaged in agriculture, the slender surplus enabled only small percentages of people to earn their bread through the written word (Carl 503).” As food production becomes cheaper and requires fewer people with the help of advancing technology, more and more people are freed to pursuit other professions and education. And this domino effect eventually leads to the betterment of the standard of living for the less