![]() ![]() Businesses and organisations are already using computers as educational devices, and as technology develops, especially in the field of virtual reality games, more shall surely follow. In contrast many have begun to see the potential computers hold as a means of education, since, unlike other traditional forms of teaching utensil, computers game based learning has a propensity to entertain the student. Yet almost as worrying are the statistics which seem hint at the highly addictive quality of such games - most notably internet based ones. The debate still rages over whether the large number of violent computer games available influences those who play to mimic such behaviour, with a host of scientific research being done on the issue. This has caused serious worries over how they affect those who use them, and especially their effects on young male men. The effect of computer storage capacity is to totally change how large scale businesses function, by assisting inventory management, and by facilitating and expediting the storage of data important to companies, for instance: Customer preferences or phone numbers.Īnother result of computers is the rise of computer games. On a larger scale, it allows scientific progress to accelerate as mathematical problems incomprehensible to humans can be worked out by simply programmed machines. This means the computer allows people to set up businesses and work form home on a scale never before seen, not to mention taking the human progress a step beyond that of the printing press by removing the need for hand writing for the first time in our history. This affects our society in two way: On an individual basis it means that any person in possession of some kind of a computer has the capacity to store every document they will ever need in a single compact machine. The development of the computer from these modest roots are the complex machines of today which allow us to store more information and work out more complicated problems in a way that would have otherwise been impossible. ![]() ![]() However, before considering the implications of the internet - which is innately linked to that of the computer - I shall look first at some of the other most important features of the computer, and what they mean for our society.įirstly, we must not forget that the computer was primarily designed as a means of storing data and solving arithmetic and logic problems. ![]() The most obvious effect of the computer has been the rise of the internet and its consequences in terms of how we communicate, socialise, learn, do business etc. The rise of the computer in the Western world, and its increasing growth of its presence in the developing world has changed the face of almost every aspect of society, most notably in terms of economics and culture. ![]()
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