# Some data on the affects of technology on things ? (Please move if neede)

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**Created:** [April 25, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-data-on-the-affects-of-technology-on-things-please-move-if-neede/354104 "2006-04-25T04:37:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aquafina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@Aquafina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquafina)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-data-on-the-affects-of-technology-on-things-please-move-if-neede/354104/1 "2006-04-25T04:37:42Z")

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I am not sure if this should be in IMHB so please mods, feel free to move it another forum.

Anyhow, I am looking for a wesites/paper that contains a few datas to

- show how technology affects goverment/economy/society/job market during the last 10 to 20 years.
- the difference in productivity between industrialized contries and non-industrialized countries (i.e third world countries), technologically

I guess there data shoud be available at some gov websites but I don’t really know where to start.

Thanks a lot

Aquafina

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**Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-data-on-the-affects-of-technology-on-things-please-move-if-neede/354104/2 "2006-04-25T08:14:21Z")

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Yikes. What a topic. I couldn’t find anything concrete, but these sites might help you get started if you want to do some research on your own:

[FirstGov](http://www.firstgov.gov) - Official US gov search engine and portal.  
Google Scholar - Search through scholarly papers.  
Google Answers - High-quality answers if you’re willing to pay.  
[CIA World Factbook](http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/) - hard and fast statistics on most countries in the world. You could compare GDPs and such, but I don’t know how you would measure levels of industrialization.

Try keywords like “technology productivity by country”

Those are just starting points. Maybe someone else can provide better/more direct links.