IT Advancements Effects
The advancement in information technology has been exponentially fast in the 20th and 21st century. Newer and newer advancements are happening day by day. Almost all aspects of society and our individual lives are influenced by the advancements in the field of information technology, in many direct and indirect ways, including governance, entertainment, human relationships, moral laws, mind and our own human nature.
Today the lifestyle of a common person has changed so much, thanks to the IT advancements. These advancements has changed the way we live, the way we communicate, the way we travel, the way we learn, the way we contribute to the society, to conclude there are so many changes these IT advancements had brought to our routine lives.
Everyday another company brings out something more advanced in an attempt to win the consumer war against another company. For example if we consider mobile phones, there are so many companies launching new phones in to the market every single day. This tug of war is between companies making cellular phones and other smart devices to win more and more consumer rate. As a result there are more and more advanced cellular phones hitting the markets day by day.
Where Information technology advancements has benefited us greatly there are also some negative effects affecting human race. Let us have a brief description of its positive effects:
IT Advancements Positive Effects
With the new advancements in the field of, people can now finish their hectic jobs within a small duration with less physical effort. In other words IT advancements have benefited people by reducing time, effort and cost for production of any product from so small such as microchips to as large as automobiles.
IT advancements are playing a huge role in economic development of a country as it reduces the material production cost and increases profit which generates savings in the economy and thus lead to national development. The advancements in the field of IT improved industry by making it more effective and safer for environment. IT advancements has shown a great deal of growth in almost every field such as communication systems, astronomy, electronic devices, automobiles, biotech devices, building and architectural designs, travel and list goes on.
IT Advancements Negative Effects
Staying grateful to all these IT advancements we cannot oversee the destructive effects these advancements are causing to daily human life. With increase of IT advancements society has become more and more dependent on technology. People are so much addicted to social media apps that they find it awkward to talk face to face. Youngsters do not have confidence to have on face conversations and are more comfortable while conversing online. This is making them socially awkward and less useful in daily life.
Today, it has become very hard to keep our private information safe while surrounded by more and more advanced IT gadgets. Online personal information always has a threat from hackers. Technology has made people rely heavily on the new advancements hence making them lethargic. It is making us so bust that we cannot even find a time to spend with our closed ones.