How Does Technology Affect Politics

Every day more people get connected to the Internet, increasing the number of users all over the world. This fact is probably the main technological advantage that has altered the way we see or we practice politics partially due to the global impact that it has. The Internet allows people to be aware of what is happening in the daily situation and so to know how politics is being exercised all over the world. Being aware means that people can give their opinions or they can support a political party in another country for example. However, to define a foreseeable future we should not only focus on the Internet but also it is necessary to think on the technological development as a whole.

Let’s use an example of how technology has changed

Politicians will be asked to change and offer new policies to the citizens due to the new technologies and this is why those areas will affect politics. This is the case of the workplace for example. New technology means progress and efficiency, which is better achieved with machinery. For that reason, companies have started to mechanize the production. This means that machines are taking over and firing people form their workplaces, increasing unemployment. Consequently, politics have already been altered (and it will keep doing it) because politicians are now offering solutions for this problem. Politicians will have to face in the future the possibility of mechanizing the production of companies and so replace the workers into other works rather than having them unemployed. Just like this example there are many others in terms technologies affecting politics in an indirect way, for instance; the increase of inequality due to the different levels of technological development between countries or the modification of security by increasing the technological advances in the army for a possible future technological