Effects of Technology

Effects of Technology

Effects of Technology

Introduction

They are called information technology and communication to the set of technologies that allow the acquisition, production, storage, processing, reporting, recording and presentation of information in the form of voice, images and data contained in acoustic signals in nature, optical or electromagnetic. ICTs include electronic and technology base that supports the development of telecommunications, computer and audiovisual. Today, it is possible that an entire factory to work without direct human intervention. Industrial society and its problems are being replaced by a society where the key value is information. However, possible developments in this field seem to belong more to the field of communications rather than the actual Informatics (BERLEUR & AVGEROU, 2005).

Discussion

The field of informatics is, without doubt, the greatest boom has had during this century and the most rapidly has been developed. Since the first computers and the invention of the transistor (1947, Brattain and Shockeley Barden) have passed fifty years and today it is difficult to look around and not see something that does not have that little glob of silicon. Perhaps this is the clearest example of the speed with which society has assimilated this century technological change (YEO, 2004).

By extension, designate the economic sector.

"The information technology and communication are not a panacea or magic formula, but can improve the lives of everyone on the planet. They have the tools to reach the Millennium Development Goals, instruments that will advance the cause of freedom and democracy, and the means to spread knowledge and facilitate mutual understanding" (Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the Organization of the United Nations, speech inaugurating the first phase of the WSIS, Geneva 2003).

The use of information technology and communication among city dwellers helps lower at any given time the digital divide in this town, since it would increase the cluster of users using ICT as a technological means to develop their activities and therefore reduces the set of people who use them. We can consider the information and communication technologies as a dynamic concept. For example, in the late nineteenth century, the phone could be considered a new technology under current definitions. The same definition could apply to television when he appeared and became popular in the decade of the 50 of the last century (YEO, 2004).

Technologies

ICTs constitute the set of resources to manipulate information and particularly computers, software and networks needed to convert, store, manage, transmit and find.

ICT can be regrouped according to:

• Networks.

• Terminals.

• Services.

Here we analyze the different access networks available today:

The most elementary method for an internet connection is a modem using a basic telephone access. Although not all the benefits of broadband features, has been the starting point for many Internet users, and is a basic alternative to less affluent areas. In almost all European Union countries, the degree of availability of telephone households is very high, except in Austria, Finland and Portugal. In these countries is very strong the effect of substitution of a fixed line ...