Computers what-about_our_future

Group 2Members are:

Ding Lu,Afreh Kwame, Yakovishin Oleksandr, Lossini Yasin and

Salahuddin Muhammed.

Computers –What about our future?

Issues we intend to address in this presentation

I. How have technologies affected our relationships with others?

II. What are the social implications of ubiquitous computing?

III. What are some of the ethical dilemmas society is facing due to advances in technology?

IV. Discuss an advantage and disadvantage associated with these rapid changes of pace.

V. How do you think the advance of computing technology will impact our world in the next 50 years?

How has technologies affected our relationships with others?

1. Technology has increased our ability to communicate more frequently and across vast distance.

Mobile phones E-mails

2 Technology has hinder the growth of natural relationships.

Facebook-users are concern with quantity than quality when it comes to friends.

3 Technology has rob children from developing interpersonal skills .

4. Technology has and is still helping people to communicate in a more sophisticate ways than message sticks, smoke signals, semaphore etc

Relationship continued.......

Social implications1. Invading privacy

2. Given way to unemployment

3. Deskilling jobs

4. Reducing the ability of government to control their economies

5. pornography

6. Destroying culture

7. Maniplation of the ’truth’

The ethical dilemmas society is facing due to advances in

technology?1. Internet Usage.

a. Illegal downloading of Music, Movies, Books

b. Plagiarism

c. Pirated Software ( Copying, distributing without any permission )

d. Copyright

Ethical Dilemma......

2. Weapons Guns

Biological

Chemical

1 Technology has improved existing business process

Use of sophisticated IT system .example, e-invoicing Netbanking

2 Creating completely new business models Using extensive monitoring & searching

capabilites e.g pay-per use Ordering a book from Amazon.com

3 Influence macro-economic effects

Advantages

Advantages continued.....

4 With technology medical science is very progressive and vastly available.e.g the new Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatment equipment for people with depression yet to be use.

5 Creation of new jobs.

6 Technology has facilitated the movement of people

Advantages continued.....

7. Globalization

8. Bridging cultural gap

Disadvantages1 Terrorism2 Destroying cities3 Over Dependency4 Lack of job security-One needs to learn

always.5 Dominant Culture e.g U.S culture is

almost every where.6 Glowbal warming-highly developed

machinery pollutes the globe.7 Creates new diseases and disorders such

as obesity, laziness and a loss of personality.

Impact on our world in the next 50years

1. Virtual universities2. Powerful microchips3. Robots4. Finger print as a sensor5. Intelligent market6. Virtual games 7. Technology will be available to the whole

community8. Mediccal inventions like robot doctors,

artificial food,experiment on animals

Links1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?co

mmand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9003752

2. http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/publ/papers/langhein_aswemaylive_2002.pdf

3. www.nae.edu

4. http://www.partnerships.org.uk/itf/itfsum.html (inventing the future-communities in the information societies)

5. www.humanismtoday.org

6. Management Information System By Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon.