Assignment 3: The impact of Computers on the Society

The impact of Computers on the Society

Assignment 3

Computers have become omnipresent these days. From the benevolent researchers to the evil criminals, computers are used by almost everyone associated with almost every field. Computers have become so indispensable that the world will cease to function without it functioning properly. The computers power the world economy, the entertainment industry, communication system, transport system and almost everything that we can think of. Besides, computers are a common house hold item these days. From listening to music to playing games to inventory management, computers are being used at home. It is clear that computers have penetrated a lot may aspects of human society and culture and our everyday life, its impact on us and our society is remarkable.

1. Computers have increased out productivity in every field. Tasks that would require days to complete can be done in no time these days. That means we can do more work in less time.

2. Computers have revolutionized world communication. The use of emails, IMs, IRCs, Blogs, Forums and all have changed the way we used to communicate.

3. Computers have become our day to habit. We use it for entertainment purpose, education purpose, inventory management all many other purpose. This have made our work easier and our studies more effective but we no more go outside to play games or interact with out neighbors much.

4. With the advent of Internet, most of our interactions with the service providers like Banks, ISPs, Mobile service providers, schools, campuses have gone online. That makes the transactions and information sharing effective and fast but it also exposes us to different computer related crimes like identity theft, password theft and others.

5. With computers changing its status from amenity item to inevitable household item, it has created pressure to the economically backwarded people to get one in their house as well. This can give rise to different malpractices in the society like theft and abuse in the name of providing loans.

6. Evolution of computers is a very rapid process. New technology comes forth every month. It is very difficult to keep up with these changes.

7. Activities like identity fraud, human proxing, cheating, and other illegal and anti-social activities have gone up due to use of computers.

8. Computers are rendering peoples physically vegetative. News like death due to over indulgence with computer games and internet are no more rare.

9. Personal abuse, insult, racketeering and other malpractices have increased.


Having said all this, it can be concluded that computer are indispensable for us. But to keep the negative impacts at bay or to minimize them, we have to use computers more sensibly and promote ethical use of computers.