Question

Positive impact of information technology on society

Answer 1

With the development of computer industry and internet networks during the last three decades things have changed and global communication has reached an unprecedented height . With these developments immense scopes have come to the surface to impart learning in a much more efficient and interactive way. Multimedia technology and internet networks have revolutionized the whole philosophy of learning and distance learning and provided us with the opportunity for close interaction between teachers and learners with improved standard of learning materials compared to what was existing only with the printed media. As we mentioned earlier it has gone to such an extent to create a virtual class room where teachers and students are scattered all over the world.

We could be able to work on jobs being thousands of miles away . That way the problem of skills shortage in some countries could be reduced and efficient people would be available to do the job.

Quick dispatch of information globally has facilitated the commercial expansion to an extremely high level with a small firm being able to sell its products to another part of the world very easily as they can communicate to each other in no time and fix up the deal. Development of electronic commerce has made it very convenient for individual buyer to select the product online and make payment immediately. However this has its problem as the buyer has not seen whom he/she is buying from and can never hear from the seller once the money has been paid. This kind of case has come to our attention.

Virtual reality, probably much more advanced and more seamlessly integrated devices (e.g. one could think of a device projecting images (perhaps from glasses) directly onto the lens of a human’s eye), allowing people to disregard their surroundings. This will allow people to travel virtually, e.g. one could go on holidays just by playing a certain application, relax there, walk around, take it easy.