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6: The effect of using ICTAnouk Lohman Benito 4EF
6th homework
, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) embodies all telecommunications
such as the internet, wireless networks, cell phones, computers, software, middle-ware,
video conferencing, social networking, and other media applications and services that
allow users to access, retrieve, store, transmit, and manipulate data in a digital format.
Would you be able to name what devises have a computer processor? You would name a few, but few
are conscious of the amount and how common these are. We are surrounded by technology which has
completely changed our lifestyles, work environment, etc. People have found many different uses for
the internet, leaving behind newspapers, yellow pages for contact information, physical maps… All
these things and more can be found online in seconds and have made so many previously essential
things obsolete causing one of the biggest shifts towards technology that we have witnessed. It has
also brought many consequences.
Advantages Disadvantages
New careers being developed, some jobs are Since some skills are not necessary anymore
easier and require less skills and even dangerous many abilities are being lost. Many have no job
assignments are executed by machines, saving because robots are cheaper than workers.
lives.
Curiously, a group of hackers known as Some people can hack our devises and obtain
Anonymous use their set of skills to punish mob information, access to our bank account, etc. In
members and are even trying to hack the Russian general, we are more vulnerable to certain threats
government to stop the war. that have appeared with the rise of technology.
Computers can make really accurate predictions, Computers are not able to think subjectively,
this way we predict the weather, etc. which limits their achievements.
The internet gives access to a lot of information A lot of false information is advertised in the
which always comes in handy and offers new internet. There are many reports of large groups
possibilities to those who can’t go to school. of people who believe in crazy theories: e.g.,
‘Birds Aren’t Real’ movement.
New sources of entertainment are found These platforms are very addictive and cause
everywhere, like social media, blogs, video mental health issues. In the present the number of
games... suicides, stress, anxiety, depression, and
sociopaths is the highest in recorded history. This
is all linked to an unhealthy use of these
platforms.
In many cases it helps connect people around the Many people live an inactive lifestyle due to
world and has been immensely helpful during being at home on the computer all day long. It has
Covid since we could not see our close relatives. also been proven that it can cause many health
issues such as bad eyesight, muscle cramps, bad
posture and so on.
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