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Since the use of IT came to the fore and became a lot more popular, it has touch society in many ways. In employment methods, databases are used to store infomation about salary, about meeting schedules, and about jobs. Office work is almost entirely computerised. There are employment records kept on computer. Bank records, criminal records and much more. This means that any prospective employer can access all the relevant infomation about you at the touch of a button. He will probably have a list of your qualifications on file, so at a glance he can see where your strengths and weaknesses lie, and wheter you are suited to the job. So much work is done on computer, that having several backup copies of all data has become commonplace at work and even at home. E-mails are used to communicate with others and send documents immediately. If you need to talk to whoever you are sending the e-mail to, video-confrencing is used. Without this, it would mean using the phone, letters, chat rooms, e-mails or several hours journey. Without I.T. methods in the workplace, we would have to use the phone to talk to customers, other branches, or anyone else we need to communicate with. Computerising important documents mean that they can be sent to the other side of the world in a matter of seconds via e-mail. Unfortunately, we rely so much on e-mail for this sort of thing tat a failure in the e-mail services or a virus can stop production. A power cut in an office means that work will stop until power returns. A bunch of workers in suits and ties would be temporarily reduced to the stone-age.
Individually, we rely on IT methods too much. The internet was seen as a method of communication, to allow people to find out infomation on whatever they needed, as long as they had a modem. Unfortunately, sad, perverted individuals seem only to use the internet to download naughty pictures of women. Others use the internet to display their complete lack of personality by typing sentence fragments to other people in a chat room in “real time”. The internet now allows lazy, antisocial, or agoraphobic people to stay in their house 24 hours per day, tele-commuting, shopping online, or chatting with friends whilst pretending to be someone else of a different gender, a different age, known only as a nickname. That person may think he is decieving the other person, who is deciving him. The truth is that neither of them are 20-year-old lesbians. But they are willing to believe they are to escape the grim reality. Thanks to the internet, they no longer have to go out anymore. They can visit any museum they like, find out the weather (although this is a tiny bit irrelavent if they don’t go outside), buy stuff online, create viruses to e-mail to their friends and cause havoc, and so on. OK, maybe that was an unfair stereotype of internet users who have no social life to speak of, but many of these people are wasting away in a computer chair because they don’t have to go outside anymore. Perhaps we, as a society, are getting reliant on the internet. If you have a virus on your computer, you no longer are responsible for not doing anything. It is impossible to work without a computer(!)
It’s not just the internet. The latest computers come with 40GigaBytes hard disk memory as standart, but you have to pay a lot to increase your RAM from the standard 256MB to 1024MB, but there is no circumstance in which you would need the extra memory, or another 40GigaBytes. In the time it took you to fill up the 40 GigaBytes you already have, you would have deleted the stuff you put on 10 years ago that you no longer need. There are people I know that have filled up a 20GB hard drive with no effort, but that is becuase of the little rule of filling which states that: “Anything that can be filled will be filled” This rule means that if the person needs space, he can just delete the unnecessary crap that is only there to take up space. Before computers, the method of storing data was to make paper documents. Maybe, then, computers are very necessary, but the internet has been abused, by sad, antisocial, or perveted idiots. Is the internet that necessary if that seems to be what it is mostly used for?
Individually, we rely on IT methods too much. The internet was seen as a method of communication, to allow people to find out infomation on whatever they needed, as long as they had a modem. Unfortunately, sad, perverted individuals seem only to use the internet to download naughty pictures of women. Others use the internet to display their complete lack of personality by typing sentence fragments to other people in a chat room in “real time”. The internet now allows lazy, antisocial, or agoraphobic people to stay in their house 24 hours per day, tele-commuting, shopping online, or chatting with friends whilst pretending to be someone else of a different gender, a different age, known only as a nickname. That person may think he is decieving the other person, who is deciving him. The truth is that neither of them are 20-year-old lesbians. But they are willing to believe they are to escape the grim reality. Thanks to the internet, they no longer have to go out anymore. They can visit any museum they like, find out the weather (although this is a tiny bit irrelavent if they don’t go outside), buy stuff online, create viruses to e-mail to their friends and cause havoc, and so on. OK, maybe that was an unfair stereotype of internet users who have no social life to speak of, but many of these people are wasting away in a computer chair because they don’t have to go outside anymore. Perhaps we, as a society, are getting reliant on the internet. If you have a virus on your computer, you no longer are responsible for not doing anything. It is impossible to work without a computer(!)
It’s not just the internet. The latest computers come with 40GigaBytes hard disk memory as standart, but you have to pay a lot to increase your RAM from the standard 256MB to 1024MB, but there is no circumstance in which you would need the extra memory, or another 40GigaBytes. In the time it took you to fill up the 40 GigaBytes you already have, you would have deleted the stuff you put on 10 years ago that you no longer need. There are people I know that have filled up a 20GB hard drive with no effort, but that is becuase of the little rule of filling which states that: “Anything that can be filled will be filled” This rule means that if the person needs space, he can just delete the unnecessary crap that is only there to take up space. Before computers, the method of storing data was to make paper documents. Maybe, then, computers are very necessary, but the internet has been abused, by sad, antisocial, or perveted idiots. Is the internet that necessary if that seems to be what it is mostly used for?
It think my computer is trying to tell me something. What is it boy? Are you hungry?...
Computers rule our lives now, of that there is not only little doubt, but very little argument. Life only functions because the computers make it happen. The impact of losing computers would be immense, and effect us in ways most people don't even consider.
Without computers, if they all disappeared tomorrow, what would we lose?
Most of us would lose our jobs for a start I would assume. Then we'd get home from the jobs we just lost, to homes with no electricity, no gas, possibly no running water. even if you could get your TV to work, there would be nothing on it, radio would more than likely be out, and there would be queues a mile long in every store as shop assistants are forced to whip out the calculators, or rely on mental arithmatic, slowing down a simple process immeasurably.
The world, as we know it, would come to a standstill. Can we not live without computers then? The answer, in my humble opinion, is no. Not anymore. We've made them far too much an integral part of our lives, living without them is just not an option.
What have computers brought us that is so essential? One word, organisation. We can look after, and keep track of things around us now, that would be simply unthinkable otherwise. Imagine a utility company, with 10million customers on its books, literally using books to keep track of them. They'd be tearing down a new rainforest every quarter to handle the beaurocracy. No more to be said really. Computers cut down on both the time taken, and resources required to be as well organised as we are today.
What of the internet then? Originally designed by the military for use as a post holocaust communication and data transfer system, it's certainly come a long way. But it's original intention is still there; Communication. Data Transfer. A few people abuse it, yes, but the uses it has are beyond measure. In tandem with computers, helping the world become more organised, and communicate faster, and more efficiently.
But what of those few that abuse it? These people are lonely souls indeed. Often never leaving home to experience the world, they will indeed sit there and entice "unsuspecting" likables via chat, via e-mail, via webcam or netmeeting, or whatever their prefered format is. These people, with too much time, and too little to do, have their escape. The world isn't right for them, so they've found a new one to live in. Just like grass eating rodent in the african plains learns how to evade predators, so too will our children learn to avoid the pervs. It's all a learning process, not just for individuals, but for society as a whole. Society is moving forward, the era we are in is refered to as the "technological revolution". Well it's more than that. It is also a Socialogical revolution. As computers have become a huge part of our lives, it's no co-incidence that we live in a world of constantly changing fashions and trends. Everything around us and within us is changing, and over the next 10-20 years, it will continue to change.
Then the revolution will come to an end. We will reach a technological and cultural peak. We will be something different. Recognisable of course, but different. We live in a world where society tends to ascension. Eventually, it is only a matter of time before we make computers not only essential to living, but essential to survival.
Know then, that on that day all Gods die, as we surpass anything even the most fervently religious can pass as our makers image.
The future is there for us to see, if you have the vision. There is no going back now, computers and internet and everything involved therein will continue to improve and expand their horizons, in tandem with our societies, and cultures. We are one with technology, and it is this knowledge which drives us.
IB
Without computers, if they all disappeared tomorrow, what would we lose?
Most of us would lose our jobs for a start I would assume. Then we'd get home from the jobs we just lost, to homes with no electricity, no gas, possibly no running water. even if you could get your TV to work, there would be nothing on it, radio would more than likely be out, and there would be queues a mile long in every store as shop assistants are forced to whip out the calculators, or rely on mental arithmatic, slowing down a simple process immeasurably.
The world, as we know it, would come to a standstill. Can we not live without computers then? The answer, in my humble opinion, is no. Not anymore. We've made them far too much an integral part of our lives, living without them is just not an option.
What have computers brought us that is so essential? One word, organisation. We can look after, and keep track of things around us now, that would be simply unthinkable otherwise. Imagine a utility company, with 10million customers on its books, literally using books to keep track of them. They'd be tearing down a new rainforest every quarter to handle the beaurocracy. No more to be said really. Computers cut down on both the time taken, and resources required to be as well organised as we are today.
What of the internet then? Originally designed by the military for use as a post holocaust communication and data transfer system, it's certainly come a long way. But it's original intention is still there; Communication. Data Transfer. A few people abuse it, yes, but the uses it has are beyond measure. In tandem with computers, helping the world become more organised, and communicate faster, and more efficiently.
But what of those few that abuse it? These people are lonely souls indeed. Often never leaving home to experience the world, they will indeed sit there and entice "unsuspecting" likables via chat, via e-mail, via webcam or netmeeting, or whatever their prefered format is. These people, with too much time, and too little to do, have their escape. The world isn't right for them, so they've found a new one to live in. Just like grass eating rodent in the african plains learns how to evade predators, so too will our children learn to avoid the pervs. It's all a learning process, not just for individuals, but for society as a whole. Society is moving forward, the era we are in is refered to as the "technological revolution". Well it's more than that. It is also a Socialogical revolution. As computers have become a huge part of our lives, it's no co-incidence that we live in a world of constantly changing fashions and trends. Everything around us and within us is changing, and over the next 10-20 years, it will continue to change.
Then the revolution will come to an end. We will reach a technological and cultural peak. We will be something different. Recognisable of course, but different. We live in a world where society tends to ascension. Eventually, it is only a matter of time before we make computers not only essential to living, but essential to survival.
Know then, that on that day all Gods die, as we surpass anything even the most fervently religious can pass as our makers image.
The future is there for us to see, if you have the vision. There is no going back now, computers and internet and everything involved therein will continue to improve and expand their horizons, in tandem with our societies, and cultures. We are one with technology, and it is this knowledge which drives us.
IB
Since the use of IT came to the fore and became a lot more popular, it has touch society in many ways. In employment methods, databases are used to store infomation about salary, about meeting schedules, and about jobs. Office work is almost entirely computerised. There are employment records kept on computer. Bank records, criminal records and much more. This means that any prospective employer can access all the relevant infomation about you at the touch of a button. He will probably have a list of your qualifications on file, so at a glance he can see where your strengths and weaknesses lie, and wheter you are suited to the job. So much work is done on computer, that having several backup copies of all data has become commonplace at work and even at home. E-mails are used to communicate with others and send documents immediately. If you need to talk to whoever you are sending the e-mail to, video-confrencing is used. Without this, it would mean using the phone, letters, chat rooms, e-mails or several hours journey. Without I.T. methods in the workplace, we would have to use the phone to talk to customers, other branches, or anyone else we need to communicate with. Computerising important documents mean that they can be sent to the other side of the world in a matter of seconds via e-mail. Unfortunately, we rely so much on e-mail for this sort of thing tat a failure in the e-mail services or a virus can stop production. A power cut in an office means that work will stop until power returns. A bunch of workers in suits and ties would be temporarily reduced to the stone-age.
Individually, we rely on IT methods too much. The internet was seen as a method of communication, to allow people to find out infomation on whatever they needed, as long as they had a modem. Unfortunately, sad, perverted individuals seem only to use the internet to download naughty pictures of women. Others use the internet to display their complete lack of personality by typing sentence fragments to other people in a chat room in “real time”. The internet now allows lazy, antisocial, or agoraphobic people to stay in their house 24 hours per day, tele-commuting, shopping online, or chatting with friends whilst pretending to be someone else of a different gender, a different age, known only as a nickname. That person may think he is decieving the other person, who is deciving him. The truth is that neither of them are 20-year-old lesbians. But they are willing to believe they are to escape the grim reality. Thanks to the internet, they no longer have to go out anymore. They can visit any museum they like, find out the weather (although this is a tiny bit irrelavent if they don’t go outside), buy stuff online, create viruses to e-mail to their friends and cause havoc, and so on. OK, maybe that was an unfair stereotype of internet users who have no social life to speak of, but many of these people are wasting away in a computer chair because they don’t have to go outside anymore. Perhaps we, as a society, are getting reliant on the internet. If you have a virus on your computer, you no longer are responsible for not doing anything. It is impossible to work without a computer(!)
It’s not just the internet. The latest computers come with 40GigaBytes hard disk memory as standart, but you have to pay a lot to increase your RAM from the standard 256MB to 1024MB, but there is no circumstance in which you would need the extra memory, or another 40GigaBytes. In the time it took you to fill up the 40 GigaBytes you already have, you would have deleted the stuff you put on 10 years ago that you no longer need. There are people I know that have filled up a 20GB hard drive with no effort, but that is becuase of the little rule of filling which states that: “Anything that can be filled will be filled” This rule means that if the person needs space, he can just delete the unnecessary crap that is only there to take up space. Before computers, the method of storing data was to make paper documents. Maybe, then, computers are very necessary, but the internet has been abused, by sad, antisocial, or perveted idiots. Is the internet that necessary if that seems to be what it is mostly used for?
Individually, we rely on IT methods too much. The internet was seen as a method of communication, to allow people to find out infomation on whatever they needed, as long as they had a modem. Unfortunately, sad, perverted individuals seem only to use the internet to download naughty pictures of women. Others use the internet to display their complete lack of personality by typing sentence fragments to other people in a chat room in “real time”. The internet now allows lazy, antisocial, or agoraphobic people to stay in their house 24 hours per day, tele-commuting, shopping online, or chatting with friends whilst pretending to be someone else of a different gender, a different age, known only as a nickname. That person may think he is decieving the other person, who is deciving him. The truth is that neither of them are 20-year-old lesbians. But they are willing to believe they are to escape the grim reality. Thanks to the internet, they no longer have to go out anymore. They can visit any museum they like, find out the weather (although this is a tiny bit irrelavent if they don’t go outside), buy stuff online, create viruses to e-mail to their friends and cause havoc, and so on. OK, maybe that was an unfair stereotype of internet users who have no social life to speak of, but many of these people are wasting away in a computer chair because they don’t have to go outside anymore. Perhaps we, as a society, are getting reliant on the internet. If you have a virus on your computer, you no longer are responsible for not doing anything. It is impossible to work without a computer(!)
It’s not just the internet. The latest computers come with 40GigaBytes hard disk memory as standart, but you have to pay a lot to increase your RAM from the standard 256MB to 1024MB, but there is no circumstance in which you would need the extra memory, or another 40GigaBytes. In the time it took you to fill up the 40 GigaBytes you already have, you would have deleted the stuff you put on 10 years ago that you no longer need. There are people I know that have filled up a 20GB hard drive with no effort, but that is becuase of the little rule of filling which states that: “Anything that can be filled will be filled” This rule means that if the person needs space, he can just delete the unnecessary crap that is only there to take up space. Before computers, the method of storing data was to make paper documents. Maybe, then, computers are very necessary, but the internet has been abused, by sad, antisocial, or perveted idiots. Is the internet that necessary if that seems to be what it is mostly used for?