Communications Technology Essay:
Introduction
This
essay will be on the issues that are relevant to the disadvantages
and advantages of communication and technology. Also this essay will
go into the impact of communication technology on the privet and
public life. The legislation on the freedom of information act and
the data protection act
Recognition
of current issues & development in Communication &
Information Technology
The
facts about communication and technology is that it will improve the
lives of those who will not be dependent on it and use it as a tool.
And not as string to life or as away to stay disconnected from
society physically and emotionally. There are more and more online
relationships happing in the passed 3 to 4 years on social websites
like FaceBook, Bebo and any dating site. You don’t have to meet
people in real life and even the way say real life as if every one
has a fake one?. Witch sadly a lot of people do and there almost no
way you can know who you are talking to. As seen in an American
reality TV show CatFish where they get emails from people who ask
them to find out who they are really talking to online and 10 times
out of 9 they will not be who they said they were.
There
are more people in the world that have access to a mobile phone then
to a toilet. And out of the 7 billion people in the world 6 billion
people have a mobile phone. That 6 billion people that can text, call
and e-mail 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That is an incredible
amount of people to be contented in one form technology. In this day
and age, the main of western and Japaneses society are so highly
focus on pushing communicate technology that they will spend millions
on some new phone or tablet like Apply who makes the Iphone and there
I tablet or google who make google glasses and there only two of hand
full company’s that will spend this much money on product that are
not that advance as they would let you believe. Most millinery
company’s and privet millinery’s would have had the same
technology 2 to 4 years early in guns, missiles and reconsecrates
equipment then they would sell them to governments around the world
and to company's. The more worrying is the unemployment
of people who work in factories. As it is a lot cheaper to have one
machine to do the work of 4 people who need to sleep and eat. This is
not just in factories evan in shops were they have self check out
that is some ones job taken by technology
The Advantages of Communication Technology
The Advantages of Communication Technology
Private:
The
advantages communication technology has had on the world is that we
now have a wide range of new communication methods allowing you to be
in contact with others less of a cost and over greater distances then
we ever could before. Technical advancements in communication is
booming as more people in the world now have smartphones and text
based communication can give people with speech or social problems a
tool to communicate with their friends and family.
Public:
The
advancements in communication Technology has made most businesses
automated giving people access to a website or voicemail for 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week. This means that a business can be open anytime,
giving a customer the capability to make a purchase from different
countries (as long as they will deliver to that country or the
website is not banned).
There
is more jobs communication
technology in for programmers,
systems analysts and Web designers all owe their jobs to
communication
technology, as well as the
people involved in secondary industries such as the technology
training and the recruitment of students or employes. As well as
making most manufacturing companies more efficient by taking human
error out by replacing them with computers and robots.
The
disadvantages of Communication Technology
Private:
The
new age of communication
technology has made online dating a more popular but it has been used
to scam people who are looking for a friend or partner. These people
are predators and are tricking people into thinking that they are
someone else entirely by making up
life stories and photographs that they find on online often contain
the friends, resumes and jobs that they say have but only there not
their own if they are even real. This has even got this own name now
from a movie/TV show “CatFish”, so people are getting catfished
all over the world and some even ask for money that will never be
payed back, people have lost thousand in these scams they rarely
ever solve.
Public:
The
disadvantages of communication technology are privacy issues like
mobile phone signal interceptions, Email hacking, people are worried
about their once private information becoming public knowledge. Even
with government laws are trying to prevent this happing but company's
and governments are the ones who do this the most and the fines for
the taking or selling people's privet information is just not hight
enough “The $40 million in fines that Google has agreed to pay to
settle charges in both cases is but a small fraction of the search
giant's total revenue, which was $50 billion last year.” - Gerry
Smith. There are company's that are putting microchips in almost
everything you buy, wear, drive and read allowing company's,
retailers and police to track the stuff you buy.
The
unemployment because of technology is a very real thing as robots,
automation, and software can replace people in manufacturing or as a
travel agent but its happens in more than just low qualified jobs. In
some hospitals they have got rid of fully qualified pharmacists for a
pharmacy automation which is a pill vending machine. To even become a
pharmacists you must complete a four-year Pharmacy degree then do a
twelve months practical training in an approved establishment then
you have to pass a license examination. That is a long time to be
made redundant
by a pill
vending machine. Some experts believe that the internet has made
keeping a job or keeping relevant in a job a issue as technology is
always moving foreword. This means that downsizing
and outsourcing is a problem and a lot of lower and middle level jobs
have been done away with causing more people to become unemployed
Healthy & Safety Communication Legislation
Healthy & Safety Communication Legislation
The
Data Protection Act 1988:
The
Data Protection in Ireland is set out in the Data Protection Act,
1988 and 2003. Which were put together as one act. The Acts place
responsibilities on the persons that collect and process personal
information. As well as conferring rights on individuals.
The Data Protection Act is
about your fundamental right to privacy.
The
Freedom of Information Act 1997:
The
Freedom
of Information Act, 1997
obliges government departments, the Health Service Executive (HSE),
local authorities and a range of other statutory agencies to publish
information on their activities and to make personal information
available to citizens.
Conclusion:
The
aim of this assignment was to find out how communications technology
has impacted the world and the disadvantages and advantages of
communication technology. I feel that I have fulfilled the aim and
have benefited from doing this assignment. I have learned that the
advantages and disadvantages are and will be an on going battle as
there are as may good points as there is bad. From this assignment
you can see that the technology is growing fast and is gonna move the
world in power and information.
References
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- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/it-moral-values/
- http://smallbusiness.chron.com/disadvantages-business-communication-technology-1799.html
