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With the advancement of technology, people in current society have become able to spend more time on enjoying leisure activities than those living in the past. Not only that, the progress of technology is contributing to the development of leisure industry as well. In this respect, I firmly believe that people will have more time for leisure activities 20 years from now.
To start with, the advancement of technology will help people work less hours and enjoy their leisure. Looking back on our history, people nowadays do not work as much as people did in the past. To be specific, demand for manual labor has been decreasing as it would become possible for people to deal with work with automated machine. The best example to illustrate this point is the advent of automated teller machine which is called ATM. In the past, meeting human tellers had to manage all the matters in banks. However, thanks to the help of ATM, they were able to reduce the amount of work load because they split some simple work with ATM. For this reason, I think 20 years later, more developed technology than now enables people to work less and have time for leisure activities.
Furthermore, as the scale of leisure industry is growing as time passes by thanks to the progress in technology, people will be more tempted to spend their time on enjoy leisure activities. The scale of leisure activities in the past was small and limited compared to that of present times. However, with the progress of technology, leisure industry has grown and the number of activities has increased as well. To take the research conducted by Ministry of Technology of Korea in 2012 for example, it reveals that video game industry has drastically grown up in last 20 years. It also found out that mania for video games has remarkably increased at the same time. The research anticipated that video game industry is expected to grow in the future. In this trend, I think the number of people enjoying games is going to rising. As seen in this case, I speculate people will invest their time into enjoying leisure activities 20 years later.
For the reasons stated above, I strongly agree with the statement that people will have more time for leisure activities 20 years from now.
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