¶ … Technology Impacts Relationship Marketing The use of guided selling technologies is pervasively used throughout manufacturing and services companies to provide responsive support to customers online, on a 24/7 basis. Cisco, Conair, Schneider and many other companies rely on guided selling to stay more connected with their commercial accounts on a 24/7 basis (Lager, 2006)
Cisco relies on guided selling systems to also serve their low-volume resellers and partners, as is it more cost effective using guided selling over having an individual sales representative call them (Lager, 2006). Guided selling systems are based on a technology that applies a series of constraints to a product catalog, making it more perfectly aligned with the preferences of the customer (Ong, Lin, Nee, 2006)
The internet, television, magazines, display boards (all product of technology) have been promoting through advertisement some slimming pills and supplements (all products of technology) that gives ladies a 'slim and fit' body that is socially acceptable and on the other hand muscle building supplements that give men an 'awesome look' acceptable in the society. These have led to cases of women of all ages starving till they suffer from anorexia and men using the supplements till it becomes medical detrimental to their health, some ending in death for both cases (Psych Central, 2011)
The medical sector ahs also benefited from the advancement in technology since some operations like the laser operation, infrared radiation that were not possible and people died of cancer there before is now done in matter of minutes thanks to technological advancement in the North America. The extensive research in medicine has given birth to better medication and treatment procedures that have prolonged life span (Science Ray, 2011)
The continued use of technology among women has also enabled the women's movement to bridge the gender gap that there before existed. This is achieved through sharing of information on empowerment of women throughout the North American Society (Usha AHarma, 2003)
Medical equipment including simple devices like prosthetics can make a huge difference in the daily lives of people, deeming individuals with disabilities able to work and thereby generate income and contribute to their communities. As of yet, the 3D printed materials have not yet been deemed fully safe for use internally but researchers are working on developing materials that can be used to manufacture 3D printed materials that can be placed inside the human body (Horn, 2013)
For example, one site recommended an umbilical cord clamp, which was possible with the 3D printing technologies (Matthews, 2015). In addition to 3 DforHealth, iLabHaiti has been producing the umbilical cord clamps (Martin, 2013)
Those advancements are only meaningful when they are shared equitably across the global population. After the earthquake hit, an organization called 3 DforHealth, dedicated to the medical applications of 3D printing, instantly identified 16 core objectives for using their technologies in Haiti: objects that could "meet the real-time demands of medical professionals and set about training individuals" in how to operate 3D printers like the MakerBot Replicator 1 (Matthews, 2015)
24 dollar per day. "The majority of people lack adequate shelter, clean water and access to health care," (Perretty, n
Advancements in filament materials can soon make them safe enough for internal use. Prosthetics manufactured in typical ways can cost thousands of dollars, placing them far out of reach for Haitians (Thu, 2015)
¶ … Robotic Technology on Business / Robotic Technology: Impact on Business According to ShahinFarshchi, in his work the 'Five Myths and Facts About Robotics Technology Today', the increase in the use of robots today has been enabled by seamless connectivity, three dimensional printing, widely available open source code, less expensive sensors and even faster processors. Some concerned parties are even expressing fears that there is increasingly less human to human interaction, and others are warning of job losses with robots being deployed to do tasks that some are saying shouldn't be done by machines (Farshchi, 2014)
It is no doubt that the world is moving faster towards the increased use of robots in businesses, with the introduction of robots doing different human tasks, such as the self-driven cars by technological giant Google or automated agents working for various call centers. The increase in utilization of robots has had both positive and negative criticism (Worx, 2015)
Since robots can do tasks at a constant speed and without going to sleep, taking vacations or asking for overtime, they do have the potential to work more effectively than humans. The types of work done by robots and how they do it will still grow and expand, and embracing this truth is the only way out since this is an irreversible change (Pittsburgh, 2015)