In this post we will be looking at the meaning of society, Technology, positive and Negative Impact of Technology on The Society.
INTRODUCTION
In the past few decades, technology grows rapidly. And the use of technology is also increased drastically. It affects the life of people and changes the way of their learning, thinking, and communication. It plays a major role in society, and now it is very tough to imagine the life without technology. Both technology and society are co-related, co-dependent, co-influence with each other.
Technology lays an impact on society, including the potential for society to progress or decline, in both good and bad manner. Our society is shaped by technology, which has both beneficial and harmful consequences. Human societies and technology have grown inextricably linked since technical systems like mobile phones, computers, TV, etc. are produced by humans and reflect the very basis of a population’s needs and lifestyle.
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Although technology improves the lifestyle of human being, it also a major concern for the future generations. Nowadays, people are excessively using technology which reduce their physical activities that directly affect their health. Also, due to the excessive use of technology there are so many cybercrimes happens every day in which someone steals the identity or personal information of the victim, such as Unique ID number, PAN number, Debit Card, etc., and uses it to conduct a crime or perpetrate fraud without our permission.
What is Society?
Society is defined as the group of among human beings sharing social relationships. Or in other words, a society is a group of people that lives together in a community that includes some form of government, along with some rules and economy.
What is Technology?
Technology is defined as the body of knowledge that deals with the innovation, invention, and application of technical means, as well as their interrelationship with life, society, and the environment. Or in other words, technology means the use of scientific knowledge to achieve some specific goal or create applications that are used in industry or in everyday life. So, if we are using some scientific knowledge to achieve some goal means we are using technology.
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Impact of Technology on Society
We utilize and rely on technology in our daily lives, and our technical requirements and demands continue to grow. Technology is used by humans to explore, connect, study, and do work. The manner in which we use technology decides whether its effects are beneficial or detrimental for society.
Positive Impacts of technology on society:
Technology has a more positive impact on humans or society as compared to negative. It makes our life easier and reward us by providing resources or tool that make our life much easier. Following are some positive changes that technology brings to our life:
- Improved Communication: Communication is the most important part of society; we build or transfer our thoughts with each other with the help of communication. Earlier people used pigeons or birds to transfer their messages to their loved ones. After that technology slowly grows and the medium of transferring information is changed to mobile phones, email, etc. Nowadays, we send messages to loved ones or known people via email, social media platforms, etc. It is the fastest, efficient, and effective medium. People can talk or share information with their loved ones easily even if they are very far away from them.
- Improved Education and learning process: Technology enhances the education and learning process. Nowadays, people can easily enhance their knowledge using the internet. Most of the data is present on the internet is free of cost, and you can access this data anytime and anywhere.
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- Mechanized Agriculture: Technology changes the working mechanism of farmers. Lots of machines and technical instruments were introduced in the agricultural area which makes farming very easy, effective, automated, etc.
- Easy to access information: We can easily access information via the internet anytime and anywhere. Most of the information is present on the internet are free of cost, so you can use them to enhance your knowledge, skills, etc.
- New Techniques of Promoting Business: In addition to improving business strategy, technology has also made marketing easier, more effective, and more cost-efficient. In the days before the Internet, companies were limited to running ads in newspapers and magazines. If they had the budget, they could run ads on TV or radio as well. As the Internet grew and social media platforms began popping up everywhere, marketing became much easier, especially for smaller businesses and startups with limited advertising budgets.
- Transportation and Household: Improvements in transportation have not only made it easier to get from one place to another, but safer as well. Just think about what a massive undertaking it once was to cross the Atlantic. When the pilgrims were first settling the Americas, crossing the ocean was at least a two-month journey. Once steam engines were invented, it took less than a week. Now, it can take as little as five or six hours to fly across.
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Negative Impact of Technology on The Society.
As we know that everything present on this planet has both advantages and disadvantages. The same goes for technology it also has negative impacts on society and some other negative impacts are:
- Increase in unemployment: Nowadays, large and small business uses machinery and technical equipment because of their low costing and high efficiency due to which the rate of unemployment is increasing continuously.
- Increase in pollution: Not only humans but technology also affecting our environment. Due to vehicles and machinery, the rate of pollution is increasing continuously which causes global warming, etc.
- Increase in health and mental concerns: Nowadays, technology effecting the physical as well as mental health of human beings. It makes people lazy, emotionally weak, sleeping problems, reduce physical activity, also people are spending less time with their family and friends.
- Increase in cybercrimes: Due to the excessive use of the internet, the rate of cybercrimes is also increased. Some people (attackers) harm innocent people (victims) or children for money or fun.
- Communication Breakdown: A communication breakdown occurs when information is not exchanged, resulting in a loss of interaction.
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- Defamation of Character: The act of transmitting a piece of false information in order to do serious harm to another person’s goodwill is known as defamation of character.
- Identity Theft: To use the identity of some other person by getting his financial/ personal information in a fraud manner in order to commit a crime.
- Fake news & misinformation: Fake news and misinformation have been with us for quite some time, but with the tech advancements moving rapidly, people find it hard to keep up with what’s true and what’s not.
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CONCLUTION
While Tech Can Have its Downsides It Really Does Make Life Easier, Human beings will always strive to invent new technology and to advance current technologies. It’s a part of our nature to improve our lives in whatever manner we can, and technology helps us do that. While there are certainly many downsides to technology, keep an open mind when new technology is introduced.