The Profound Impact of Technology on Society: COIT20249 Analysis

This presentation analyzes the multifaceted impact of technology on society, exploring its influence across various sectors. It begins by examining the effects of technological advancements on education, including the rise of distance learning, computer-based learning, and online resources. The presentation then delves into the impact on medicine and science, highlighting innovations such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and genetic engineering. Furthermore, it discusses the effects on the global economy, including the growth of e-commerce and its implications for work and personal lives. The presentation also touches on technological advancements affecting personal lives, such as smart devices and space travel, concluding with a summary of key findings and predictions for the future. The content is supported by references to academic sources to substantiate the claims made about technology's role in shaping society.

Impact of technology on
society

Objectives
• It describes the impact of technology on
the field of education
• It describes the impact of technology on
the medicine and science.
• It describes the impact of technology on
pay and work

Technological Changes
• School
• Home
• Workplace

Education
1. Factors that affect the education
include internet, various online
tests, distance learning, computer
based learning and simulations
(Chauhan, 2017).
2. Help in renovating the classrooms,
libraries and web quests.
The factors that affect education are

Distance Learning
– Distance learning can be defined as a way to utilize technology
as a medium for learning and schooling.
– Distance learning helps the students to stay in touch with the
institute as well as the professors irrespective of their
geographical location (Haustein, Bowman & Holmberg, 2016).
– The department of education supports the distance learning to
numerous students.

Computer Based Learning
• Computer based learning is also known as computer
assisted instruction.
• A special computer program is utilized in order to help
the users to reinforce a complex concept (Crowley &
Heyer, 2015).
• Various advantages of computer based learning
include providing opportunity for mastering the idea
with the help of reviewing as many times as required
(Amirshokoohi, 2016).

Technological innovations and
scientific discovery
• Various technological innovation that affect the society include
artificial intelligence
• helps in processing information by itself without any intervention
of humans (Damant & Knapp, 2015).
• Some examples of the aspects where virtual reality is used
include playing games, natural language, expert systems and
robotics (Bhagat, Chang & Chang, 2016).
• Most of the advances have been made in the field of gaming.

Scientific Discovery
• Genetic engineering, this refers to the DNA in a particular
organism
• The benefits of genetic engineering includes providing
resistance to various diseases, enabling a particular plan
or animal for doing something which it is not supposed to
do, enable a fruit to ripe without providing squashy
(Sobel, Gilmartin & Sankar, 2016).

Scientific Discovery
• Scientific discovery in technology that has helped
the society is virtual reality
• People get a feeling of an actual environment
with the use of all the five senses (Brotchie, Hall,
& Newton, 2017).
• The user is usually immersed with the help of
some head mounted device such as a helmet.
• This technology is used in education, medicine,
research, training and many more areas.

Play and Work

Global Economy
• The areas affected include banking,
commerce and finance.
• This affects the way data as well as money
is transmitted (Crowley & Heyer, 2015).
• Online business can be set up with the use
of electronic commerce, users can buy, sell
products as well as services.

E-Commerce
• Ecommerce is one of the biggest contributions of
technology to the society.
• Inspite of various advantages, e-commerce has some
disadvantages as well, these disadvantages include
spam or junk mails that are sent to the email addresses.
• Some advantages include webmasters, programmers,
graphics designers, network managers and web
developers.