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Impact of Technology

Introduction

This paper describes about the technological progress and its impact on human beings. Technological progress is a continuous process, which plays a very important role in our daily lives. However, some people believe that this progress has made us lazy, saying we rely on machines too much. This is basically the big debate the weather technology makes us smarter or dumb. For me, at some extend we can say that technology makes us dumb in a way that people becomes lazy in terms of doing work manually and their thinking process becomes slow but at the same time we can't deny on the fact it gives us so many information on just one click which makes us smarter. We can explore the world. The progress of technology makes human being more active mentally in a way that we can improve our knowledge by knowing about the different things. Technology provides us an ample of information to be smarter.

According to a new survey of 1,021 technology experts and critics, hyper connectivity is a mixed bag. Fifty-five percent of those surveyed agreed that the Internet has wired the under 35 crowd differently, and that this rewiring is a good thing, stimulating multitasking talent and an ability to find relevant information fast online. But 42 percent of experts believe that the hyper connected brain is shallow, with an unhealthy dependence on the Internet and mobile devices. This paper will present and discuss empirical studies on actually enhancing social affiliation by means of IT. To sketch the potential of these applications it is valuable to consider the broadband uptake in United States. Despite large national differences, broadband penetration in United States is making significant progress.

Discussion

While it is clear that technology cannot replace human-to-human interaction, it is worth investigating if Information Technologies can support addressing interpersonal social needs where people are hindered in doing so by for example lifestyle patterns that limit frequent and affective interactions between people. Deploying IT to enhance social interaction is not straightforward though. In his earlier analysis on the influence of technology on social capital, Putnam has pointed to technological changes (e.g. television) as responsible for a decline in social affiliation. Whereas the technologies Putnam was talking about lack the aspect of interactivity as we know it in today's IT, a more recent study has investigated the impact of Internet use on social connectedness (Taube, 2004). In contrast to Putnam's operational of social capital in terms of community engagement and social trust, this study has also considered the person-to-person social affiliation as an indicator of social capital. Interestingly this study cannot conclude that the introduction of IT has the devastating effects on social capital as discussed by Putnam (Putnam, 1993, 1995, 1996).

While there are still 11% of contemporary households in the developed world using dial-up connections, by 2013 this group will only represent 2% of the on-line households. Additionally, it has been found that the connectivity type such as broadband can have a significant effect ...