Impact of Technology on Society

What is Technology?

Technology is the study and transformation of techniques, tools, and machines created by humans. Technology allows humans to study and evolve the physical elements that are present in their lives.

 

The application of scientific knowledge used in practical ways in the industry are technology.

 

Impact of Technology on Society

Technology in day to day operations will impact more on our lives, as we use it for everything, we use technology regularly for doing our works, educational purpose, browsing, Analytics, and new decision structures, Automation, robotics and future factories, Adoption of virtual and augmented reality.

 

Technology affects the way individuals communicate, learn, and think. It helps society and determines how people interact with each other on a day-to-day basis. Technology plays an important role in society today. It has positive and negative effects on the world and it impacts daily lives. 

Our society is completely dependent on technology due to increase in the digitalization.  The regular and wide use of technology has also impacted the needs and demands of the people. Technology can be used to perform different and routine tasks in an individual’s life including traveling, communication, learning, business.

With the help of technology, we can make use of,

The availability of online courses 

The access to the web seminars 

The ability to research any topic.

So, is technology a positive or negative influence on society?

The major fields of society that technology has impacted are transportation, agriculture, communication, medicine, education, and business. 

Let us take one example for better understanding of the positive and negative impact of technology,

Education and learning process

For a better interpretation of the information, educational infrastructures were organized well. Most educational institutions have started integrating technologies so that the learning process of the students could be improved.

Classroom technologies include computers, iPods, smart whiteboards, projectors, or the internet that could boost the learning morale of the students. Also, visual education has become a widely used and popular technology. It is considered the best learning method that includes all basic subjects. A lot of money is invested in the business community in certain educational technologies that can be used by both the students and the teachers.

Here are some positives of online learning,

 

·      Less intensity

·      Easier attendance

·      Improve your self-discipline

·      Easier access to teachers

·      Location, location, location

·      The comfort of your home

·      Easily transferable credits.

 

The main positive is we can save more time in online learning but there should be concentration and there should not be a distraction.

Taking the same example for negative impact of technology,

Education and learning process.

Here are some negatives,

·       physical effects

·       privacy and security

·      mental health

·       Major Source of Distraction

·       Creates Enough Opportunities for Cheating

·       Learners Get Disconnected from the Real World

·       Losing Assignment of the Students

·       Difficult to Deal with the Online Courses

·       Extinction of Good Handwriting

 

There will addiction towards it and more health problems can arise if we do not take care, there can be distractions towards online learning and some privacy problems may arise.