Impact
of IT
IT has had a
big impact on our society. Many of these impacts have been positive, but there
have been negative ones too.
Working in a
small group, discuss each of the developments in IT that are listed in the
table below. Decide what the positive benefits have been and what the negative
drawbacks are.
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IT development
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Positive impacts
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Negative impacts
|
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Email
|
Contacting
people, Passing information to each other,
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Spam, Virus, Losing
contact with old ways, Bulling
|
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Online shopping
|
Sales, Buying
from home, Easier
|
Fake websites,
Viruses, Bad deals,
|
|
Online banking
|
Home friendly,
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Viruses, fake
websites, frauds,
|
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Smart phones
|
Games, Contacting,
Bigger screen, More abilities, Internet access
|
Easily smashed, Costs
alot, Frauding contracts
|
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Laptop computers
|
Portable access
to everything, Smaller, Cheaper,
|
Batteries shit,
easily breakable, Not as many upgrades
|
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Netbook computers
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Very small, Easily
portable, A lot Cheaper,
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Bad battery life,
easy to break, not as powerful, no upgrades,
|
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MP3 music
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Portable, easy to
use, headphone access, smallllllllll, cheap
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Easily lost, easily
broken,
|
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Social networking websites like Facebook
|
Contact with
friends, funny videos & pictures, Can access it anywhere,
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Cyber bulling,
Fake accounts, Bad links
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IM programs
like MSN Messenger
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Webcam,
Messaging,
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It’s not Skype.
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Search websites like Google
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Everything.
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Bad links/websites
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Information sites like Wikipedia
|
Easily accessible
information
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Sometimes the information
can be wrong.
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