The Positive Influence Of Today’s Technology
Technology has been such a huge impact on our society significantly, we have advanced so much over the past decade. These made it possible for humans to walk on the moon and to find cures for different types of diseases that would save humanity. Technology has made society better and stronger in every way, because cellphones, video games, computers, internet, and television all make us more effective in our work. Ann Coombs states that “When workers send emails, they are sending letters, reports, proposals or responses. When they leave voicemails, messages, they are exchanging notes of information. ” (Pg: 33) Janice Turner has also stated “The reality is most workers don’t have secretaries or assistants to help them sift or learn, not to mention spend time with colleagues. ” (Pg: 611)
Computers is a device that is used in almost every field even when it is most unexpected. Computers have become very important because they are very accurate, fast, and can accomplish many tasks. For example, they have MS Word, MS Excel, and etc. Those two programs are most used in school projects. Another convenient way for us to chat with people across the globe is by using apps, websites, and extensions that have implemented voice chat. These consist of google talk, messenger, and the remind app. The Remind app allows teachers to update students on upcoming projects, quizzes, and tests. Lastly, video games have been a huge part of everyone’s lives as it has calmed and angered us. Video games has allowed people across the world to bond over the game and make friendships. They have also created jobs for people and this website is called Twitch. tv. This website allows streamers to broadcast to viewers and make a great sum of money from donations, ads, and sponsors, from all of these big streamers can make around $500k - $1 million. The advantages of the internet allows a person to communicate and research for medical treatments. The internet allows the person to communicate virtually through email, without them leaving their room.
For example, email has allowed CEOs of big corporations to communicate with vendors, customers, and deals that are spreaded across the world. Researching has been active learning for us as t expands our knowledge and understanding. Researching has allowed us to improve services and treatments, such as diagnosing diseases and healthcare problems. This will change how the healthcare will work. Research has allowed us to develop medical devices such as x-rays, MRI Scans, blood glucose meter, CT Scans, and Ultrasounds. All these medical equipment has been such a big impact as a MRI Scans send magnetic and radio waves to check for torn ligaments, tumors, and examining brain and spinal cord problems. Technology has made such a huge impact on the growth on our economy such as direct job creations, contribution to GDP growth, and workforce transformation. Workplace transformation has allowed tasks to be spread out. For example, workforce transformation has made new microwork platforms create by Amazon. These help the company to divide task into small components that can be spread out to different workers. Money trans has become more easiers as the past decade because it is much more safer and convenient.
For example, instead of meeting with the person to give them money in person you can transfer the money to their account, all you need to know is their account number for the transaction to go through. Bank statements would be such a hassle if you still used checkbooks to keep track. But now digital bank statements are more reliable as you can keep track of deposits and withdrawals instead of having them on paper and comparing the numbers each time, every month. In conclusion, we are relying more and more as a general population on technology, technology has become our savior as it has helped humanity overcome obstacles that we couldn’t have done without it. Humanity has such a huge advantage since this is just the beginning of technology as we are evolving it day by day.