The film I viewed is called Freedom and Power (part II). It discussed the every changing society that we live in and it was dated back to 1952. An old man talks about how his life was before electricity and how much change he has seen during his lifetime. This film is useful because it talks about productivity and our ever changing society. Electricity has become an intricate part of society and our world in the future will continue grow and become more efficient. This applies directly to our class because we are constantly talking about the ever changing world around us. It was a lot for the people in the 1950's to see all these changes in products and now in today's society we continue to grow and continue to change hopefully for the better. Every product they were using is primitive to us now, but at the time it was revolutionary.
In the video the old man talks about how he grew up on a farm that was not nearly as productive as it is with his son running it. It requires a lot less people to be in agriculture because of the electric power and resources that came into the industry. People started entering the service industry, and education became a high focus in society. From generation to generation we were able to see the increasingly more intelligent society that this family came to live in.
What can be learned from this video is that society will continue to change and grow because that is what we have done for thousands of years. Technology will continue to advance and we will become a more connected and information based society.
https://archive.org/details/Freedoma1952_2
I decided to watch Freedom and Power (Part II). I felt that this video applies directly to our current society as well as this course. The portion of the video that stuck out to me the most was the old man discussing and realizing that technology was more prevalent and affective in modern times than when he was younger. The film has a direct correlation to the post-industrial economy because physical human labor became less and less important as technology was implemented into agriculture and society as a whole. My biggest takeaway from this film is that technology is a resource that will never truly stop growing, as it continues to dominate all aspects of the world in our current information society.
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