Analysis Of Ford s Assembly Line - 1556 Words

Ford’s Assembly Line The acronym PERSIA denotes the categories Political, Economic, Religion, Social, Intellectual and Aesthetic into an easy way of remembering one of many systematic models. These six categories are used to organize and explain technology’s effect and changes over a long period of time. By categorizing a specific topic or idea, one may easily be able to understand the importance that topic, idea and technology has impacted a person, culture, country, and even history. Thus, providing a new outlook and perspective on history and the factors that contributed to the change in history. Firstly, the PERSIA model breaks into the category, political. Political describes how technology has impacted the political system.†¦show more content†¦Technology can impact different denominations of religious affiliations. For example Muslim, Catholic, Christians, Judaism, and etc., can use and see technology differently. On Shabbat, which is the last day of the week, known as the day of rest, followers of Judaism must refrain from using electronics and or motor vehicles. The category social, refers to an individual within society. Specifically, how technology effects changes in social relationships and people’s lives. Technology can make life easier and at the same time can make life more difficult. When an invention is released, the inventors’ intent and purpose to increase production and reduce time or increase quality of life, may produce the opposite result. For example, DDT, which was used as a pesticide, was sprayed during the mid-1900’s to rid of insects, solved the problem temporarily, but eventually caused problems to the environment and people later down the road. As a result, the technology wasn’t completely successful. Following social, intellectual describes education, technological advancement, and subjects learned in education. Some of these include, math, science, engineering and physics. The category intellectual defin es what is important to know and what is useless. Lastly, the PERSIA model ends with aesthetic. This is defined as what is appealing to the eye of a person. Creatively expressing an idea, or coming up with a new solution