Technological Advancement
The Evolution of the United States:
Technological Advancement since 1865
The modern age has enabled American citizens to broaden their horizons at an accelerated rate. At any given moment, an American can speak with someone from China, Thailand, or India, through the Internet, and can interact with individuals and with customs that have never before been so accessible to anyone, anywhere. The technological age has opened our eyes in many ways, leading many Americans to become more educated, more aware in the world-at-large and most importantly less isolated. The United States territory, as a whole, covers over three million miles. This is an immense size, with which many other countries cannot compete. Furthermore, like all large countries, the U.S. has few neighbors and is surrounded by water. Though these elements are impenetrable defenses, in an age where conquest is no longer the norm, the U.S. could, without technology, find itself isolated, as it had for decades prior to the First World War. Technology has, thus, ended the physical and intellectual isolationism of Americans by introducing them to world cultures, by enabling better awareness of the world and the environment in general, and by contributing to the advancement of America as a stalwart of democracy, fairness, and international political power.
Since 1865, technology has ended the physical and intellectual isolation of Americans in ways that could hardly have been imagined before the Civil War, although there were some important hints about the direction the country would be taking with the development of the telegraph, steamship and railroad. Post-Civil War developments that transformed the country were the completion of the railroad network by 1900, and the invention of new mass transportation technologies like the automobile and the airplane, as well as new mass communication technologies like the telephone, radio, television and the computer. Most of these were developed first on a large scale in the United States stimulated the economy and made the country the leading industrial power for decades.
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