2019 Year 12 IB Extended Essays

30 our entire world sits today on the initial inventions of the Industrial Revolution. Inventions such as the washing machine, laptop, coffee machine, tractor, and any other technological machine that makes life easier, was developed from knowledge gained in the Industrial Revolution. The immense production rates and prices of factories today were also developed from the Industrial Revolution. This impact on today’s society is especially reflected through AI and government surveillance systems. Appendix 10: In our technological world, almost all personal information is stored online, in either government of social media databases. In Australia, one’s entire medical history is stored online in a government-protected database. But what happens when the people ‘protecting’ the database decide to exploit this information?