IT Advancements in Human Life
In recent decades, there are many new advancements in the field of information technology are made which greatly affected the human life. As the old saying “necessity is the mother of invention” every new technology introduced is for the benefit and comfort of the human. And with the every new technological advancement made, it opens new areas of research and becomes the cause of many new inventions.
In the old times, people living in an area had not used to have any information about the people living on another area, just miles away. IT advancements has caused a revolution in every area of human life. Many new inventions such as in transportation and communication system has globalized the world. in old days, people used to write letters by hand, then telephone was invented which after some decades, advanced to mobile phones, lately smart phones are introduced in cell phones for the sake of more ease and comfort of human beings.
The new IT advancements in the field of transportation are cannot be overlooked. For the ease of the people and to save their time there are newer and newer means of transportation are made, which are way comfortable and quite fast. The subways, bullet trains and other advanced local vehicles has made it a lot easier for people to reach their desired destinations on time. The journey to far off places has become possible through aero-planes and ships. There satellites are sent to outer space to navigate the ships and aero-planes.
In the sector of health, the new advancements are made each day to serve better the humans. People are taking great advantage from these advances. The doctors can have online records of their patients and have more and more advanced machines every other day to diagnose correctly. The patients can connect their physician through some recently introduced apps and they do not necessarily have to go to clinics. With the new technological advancements, the diseases which were once incurable, can be cured now.
Education sector is also greatly impacted by the new advancements in the field of IT. Having computer, smart phones, laptops and other smart gadgets with access to the internet has made students more self-confident and self-dependent. The teacher and student both are greatly comforted by the newtechnological advancements. Teacher do not have to discuss the mathematics problem on the blackboard anymore, rather with the use of multimedia and slides he can convey ideas effectively.
In a nutshell, people are enjoying the benefits of IT advancements to their fullest, which were made for their comfort and ease.
But as every story has two sides, there are some negative impacts of some technological advancements on the society as well. Some people are not very happy with some new IT advancements such as social media apps or games. Some people get so much addicted to these social media apps or digital games that they forget their closed ones. Technology has connected people from the far away places but it also made people forget those living with them. The youngsters today are not confident enough to have on face conversation, parents are so occupied by these it advancements that they do not have time for their own children. The people are becoming more and more materialistic.
