Every aspect of life in the 21st century is becoming increasingly dependent on computer technology. This is creating a new technocracy, which is creating more problems than it solves. To what extent do you agree?
...ssible to control and finish processes in business with only human power. As such, the companies have begun to employ new technology to assist them to eliminate the cost in recruiting more employees and enhancing the productivity from using efficient computer systems. “According to the Department of Commerce, business investment in computers has risen from 7.7 percent of all investment in producers' durable equipment in 1990 to an astonishing 45.7 percent in 1998” (www.ncpa.org)(1) Besides, The Internet is not only to open the door of new business opportunities, but also to change the working mode of many companies in different countries, increasing the possibilities of international trade, speeding up the development of globalization and raised a 24 hours and 7 days restless electronic trading environment in which logistics were born that applies computer technology to transfer goods in the efficient way. Through the assistance of the Internet and advanced programs such as a powerful web site integrated with internal ERP (Enterprise Relationship Program) system to computerize the procedure of ordering, inventory, shipping, invoicing and accounting, small-middle companies can also have equal competitive abilities to big companies with a few employees, so the market is no longer monopolized by the big companies. Also, the stock market which is the best place to reflect the status of an economy has been changed to be more prosperous than before with accurate and flexible system used as a core. The trading of stock has become free through the internet from which the market is more active. Nonetheless, today, there are lots of economic lost which is no longer only caused by the fluctuation of stock market, but also the attack on the Global DNS(Domain Name Server) by the hackers which causes the traffic jam of the internet and computer viruses which are refined and invented to more powerful and dangerous every day and can be propagated to damage countless computers in the world through internet. “Advancements in tooling and production caused a flood of quality products which dramatically upgraded the quality of people lives” (Osborne, John, 1970)(2) Nowadays, wherever you go, there should be some equipment or facilities relevant to computer. For example, There are two great electronic items in Hong Kong which are used broadly – Intelligent Identity Card and Octopus Card (Mobile Cash), The former either is an identity card for proving the citizen identity and immigration checking or electronic certificate which is used to protect transactions when using internet banking or online shopping. Lots of features such as, library card and driving license will be added to it progressively as well. The latter is used to take transport so as not to have to buy tickets and is used to buy commodities from supermarkets and convenience shops without withdrawing money from a bank in advance, just recharging it when the balance is empty from any convenience shop or train station. As already mentioned, technology has already infiltrated into our life, and provides extraordinary convenience for us. The emergence of the Internet which astonished the world not only altered the communicating methods of society in different layers, but also shortened the distance between people in different corners of the world. People can communicate with their friends and relative who are in other countries with long distance image and voice transmissions by using a web-cam. You can make a phone call and send a fax over VO-IP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) which helps to save huge amounts of money to pay the bill of international phone call. Besides, the network technology is also advancing as the development of the Internet that can allow vast data transmission such as high quality videos and music. As a result, new media were born to enrich our choices of entertainment and the means of receiving information. The schedules of TV programs are no longer arranged and fixed, but are chosen by the audience whenever they want to watch. Despite the computer technology has lots of benefits for human beings, it also has its negative aspect, such as it can be employed to offend a technological crimes by criminals. Comparing the many aspects to find out which is affected most seriously by information technology, it would be education. In former times, studies were only done from books and traditional lessons, because of the limitation of communication, knowledge is difficult to propagate. But now, after computers have been used broadly, study methods have radically changed. Any kind of knowledge can be found by using search engines on the internet, Students don’t need to find the information from the ancient shelves in a library by wasting countless time. Besides, educators applying novel computer programs have changed the boring teaching methods which were employed for so long to be more interactive in their lessons and stimulate students to think about knowledge and questions in a different way, "technology applications can support higher-order thinking by engaging students in authentic, complex tasks within ...