Question

What are some of the quality-of-life improvements made possible by IT? Has IT had any negative effects on our quality of life? If so, explain and provide examples.

Answer 1

The information technology have made our lives much easier and more sorted over the years with regular advancements and achievements. IT have provided us with a much improved quality of life in every sphere. With IT, taking care of our health have become easy and cost effective. With highly advanced machines and improvements hospitals can offer high level of services, more accurate results and proper record keeping. All this indirectly helps people get better health care services thus improving on the quality of life.

Not only this, IT have opened doors of opportunity and helped in searching for jobs through different portals easily, as a result young graduates and skilled people can search for jobs as and when required and improve on their quality of life. Gaining education have also made easier and more flexible with various online portals for different requirements. Through which the learning process never stops and hence improving the quality of life of the students and learners.

IT have helped people improve on various spheres of their life such as health, education, safety, security, progress etc. But on the other hand IT have also affected our lives in a negative manner such as incidences of misusing the technology to harm someone's identity or defaming someone's personality is coming up, moreover intruding the privacy of people by the way of hacking into their systems or mobile phones is another negative impact of IT on our lives. The overall thinking process have been stopped as we are becoming more dependent on the IT to fulfill our day to day requirements and also misusing the technology to fulfill our bad purposes. All this excessive use of IT is resulting into degrading our value system and making our roots of tradition, culture and values weak. People have forgotten to follow their traditional values and are becoming a dummy of technology with time, hence hampering our quality of life by inducing poor value system, weak beliefs and rotten culture within us.

Hence, it can be said that IT have both positive as well as negative impact on our quality of lives, but it all depends on individual to individual as to how one manages the technology and uses it for its benefits and not letting technology overpower their brains and attacking their value system and cultural roots.