Technology grows year on year, to create outstanding new products and also to entertain us. But as technology grows so does one other key area - Employment. Since the 1930’s employment has been revolutionized year on year through microchips. Microchips enabled people to make large chunky items into small hand held ones. It also ensured computers were more efficient and faster. In the 1930’s the computers were slow and unreliable unlike nowadays when they are quick and easy to use. In the 1930’s computers were expensive and only big businesses could afford to have one. This one computer would have only been used once or twice during the week by the finance section of the businesses to calculate complicated equations. This meant that all the other calculations and work were hand written and recorded in storage cabinets. As technology moved into the 1970’s the rate of technology boomed eventually into the creation of small microchips. Since then no one has ever looked back to the past and now there are computers in every office room. Most employees in offices are computer illiterates and use computers to aid their day to day working lives.
The evolvement of computers revolutionized many working fields, on such field is the medical field as patients’ details are able to be stored more securely and easily using computers instead of hand placing them in folders and filing cabinets which usually wasted valuable hospital space and time, which could be spent saving people. As technology moved into the 19th century most employees were given special computer training to help them understand and use computers to aid their jobs. Now into the 21st century most hospital have computers and storage devices to store patient data, infact some nurses now have tablets provided by the hospitals to store patient’s information unlike clipboards hanged at the end of each bed. The use of tablets enables nurses to view changes in the patient’s health and view the administered drugs, at their fingertips. Many workers nowadays use tablets to aid their jobs i.e. postman’s carry them to get signatures from people and even meter readers carry them instead of book pages.
The growth of computing in the 21st century has been rapid that in every office or workroom workers have access to a computer all of the time. The growth of computers has been phenomenal that many younger kids have their own computers or laptops to themselves; this was not the case in the 19th century when people could not afford to buy a computer. People are now using computers for their own special pleasures such as entertainment and gaming, unlike in the past when they were only used for work related activity. People are now able to send work to their home computer and work on it when they are at home during their free time. People who own or run businesses are so dependent on computer to keep their works safe and to access it more easily unlike having filing cabinets and loose sheets of paper.
Computers have moved a great deal since its beginnings. Nowadays people have become computer illiterates from using computers that they know how to change or tweak every bit of their work more easily. This illiteracy in computing has prompted the government to take evasive action by commissioning ICT as a separate subject I the state curriculum. This has helped students to gain knowledge on how to use a computer or in some cases better improve their knowledge about them.
Computers in the 21st century enables companies to setup a new website easily and cheaply. This gives them a competitive edge in this growing world with many companies fighting for customer’s year on year. This provides companies greater profit compared to their rivals who might not have a website. This was not the case in the 1930’s as people had to hand out flyers so people would visit their company.
Everyone around the world savours in the true revolution computers have become but there are many skills and talents of young and old people, which have been forgotten. In the past many jobs were done by humans and not technology. Many banks had people counting the money so efficiently and quickly that a great talent in money counting has been lost since the revolution of technology. Many people now rely on computers to check money and how much they have remaining in their accounts etc. Technology in fact is the start of the growing unemployment crisis faced by the world today. If technology was not around people would be able to step in and get the job done and there would not have been a huge unemployment rate.
People in the 21st century are so reliant on technology and computers that if suddenly something goes wrong for instance a power cut, they lose the work they were working on which therefore affects their job and payment. Another instance is when there is no power for 1 day, this means that people can’t get on with what they want to do and therefore gets them frustrated and annoyed with technology and computers.
In the 21st century security is a big issue with many intruders out there ready to snatch at something. Computer in the 21st century are not 100% security proof as intruders are able to hack into the computer through other sources i.e. viruses. In the 1930’s people’s information would be safer in safety locked filing cabinets and not many people would have access to the data. This is one of the major drawbacks of using computers in this century.
Another drawback to computers is that it is not easy for older people to work with it as they are not computer illiterates unlike many of the younger generations. This means that they are unable to get jobs and they are not able to get a good job even though have really good qualifications or skills.
Advantages
- It gives companies a competitive edge
- It allows people to be more flexible with using time
- It reduces the amount of money needed to spend on stationary like paper, ink and so on
Disadvantages
- It causes health issues
- Causes unemployment
- Security is threatened by storing information on computers
- It forces a vast a majority of unskilled workers without anything to do
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