Describe one impact that technology has had on Southwest Asia.

Accelerate their development process.

Explanation:

The development of internet and computer technology allowed people in Southwest Asia to obtain information from the more developed nations.

This enable their people to learn various knowledge / skills to increase the quality of human resources. This caused a massive acceleration in their development process. Many of the people in southwest Asia implemented the knowledge that they obtain through internet in order to built the infrastructure in their country along with creating inventions that improve their production capacity.

a factory opens that mass-produces light bulbs.

explanation:

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answer; protectionism fosters competition and keeps price regulated;