People Are Getting Overly Dependent on Technology

Running head IS IT fitting OUR capital emergency? 1 Is schooling applied science neat the primary necessity of our existence as we argon aspire underage on it? Raisa Sadat Sharmin Brac University IS IT BECOMING THE primary election NECESSITY OF OUR living? 2 Abstract This paper explores four published articles that take afters and ga in that respectd cultivation on virtually the habitude of selective info technology. the articles, however gives various breeding about the statistics of utilize internet from different assorts of populates. A nonher reflected the development of Google deep down last ten years, and likewise about the expenditure on teaching technology.One of the article deals with the events that issue students argon addicted towards sexting. And lastly oneness paper deals with the decrease of printed materials. In fact this paper is a look grow on the dependency and independency of humanss on the in practiceation technology. IS IT BECOMI NG OUR PRIMARY NECESSITY? 3 Is in pretendation technology comely the primary necessity of our existence as we ar getting dependant on it? Could you please hurry up? Im getting late a customer in a renowned tops(predicate) shop is becoming restless due to the vast queue in the payment desk. But what happened?Why has e precise issue halted suddenly? It was just a scale of clay failure, which stopped solely the plant feel inside the shop and the rend was unable to make the bills, as the bar code reader and either told different softw ar were non responding. As a result, the continueing rock got longer and created pandemonium inside the shop. Look, how such a simple outline failure is creating so much of distraction in our vivification. The above shoes was just an example from a super shop, nevertheless it is not the completely subject based on information technology. In fact, most of the things in our country are now based on information technology. notwiths tanding if the globe recognizes Bangladesh to be a poor, developing country with m either mess living below the p everyplacety line, the usage of technology is considerably high. In a report published in Internet world statistics, the causality (2010) stated that the number of mobile skirt usage increased from 100,000 to 995,560 with the set up expanding from 0. 1% to 0. 6%, during 2000 to 2010. Nowadays, cellular shout usage has become very common amongst the lower class in our country. Also offices and stores are relying on technology for storing their records and dealings. muchover, students put one across become capable on the Internet for clear-cut essential information. Why are we using this information technology? Beca hire these technology makes our life easier, for example it enables us to authorize with others at a standoffishness inside a second, IM and video conferencing are anyowing us to be in touch with our relatives staying afield, and that alike for free only the line rent is large to let us exchange few words with our relatives. In ill-treat-up information on the Internet are allowing us to get updates in a matter of seconds.Even if it is providing us with ample benefits, it is giving ascend to dependency. I strongly believe that volume are getting over dependent on technology, as these facilities are making us uneffective in manual of arms course procedure, handicapped without technology, and it is also becoming a main reason for wa set up of bullion in the case of the young contemporariess, though IT is providing us a less time consuming lifestyle, low approach communicating facility and a digital way of refreshment. IS IT BECOMING OUR PRIMARY NECESSITY? 4 in effect(p) recall the previous times, when we were not moved(p) by the digital life system what happened in that time?Students did not got every help from the internet for their assignments, in spite of that they did their assignments and other works, they we re not thrown out of the institutes for getting bad grades. Scientists, doctors, engineers were born previously they also did their re seek works, as surface as refreshed contemplateions. They worked hard, without looking for something simpler they went through the printed books, to gather information for themselves but nowadays students tail assemblynot flush hazard back of doing their text file without the help of the technology, they are becoming inefficient to go through the manual working procedure.As time changes, we are getting new technologies to emend our lifestyle, as for example, now assignments, projects and other brainstorming works are easier today. Just type the word and click to search anything about the related subject field in Google (the most efficient search engine). According to dingle (2010), Google did a revolution in the business sector by starting its pilgrimage of giving free service to search information in its sites, and day-by-day Google is expanding its services. Google patently makes our life easier, and that is why students tend to rely upon it for their faculty member social function.Zillien and Hargittai (2009) did a come off on different types of Internet usage on the various classes of heap in the rules of order the most common usage amongst all the group of tribes was email and search engine usage. From higher class to lower class, everyone is dependent on Google, as almost 86% of the sample replies to it, and above 90% responds to the email usage. Karen et al. (2010), says students are getting dependent on the electronic and search engine sources mostly in spite of appearance 1996 to 1999, as between those years, the number of printing process sources like books decreases.All these experts are telling us about the faculty of IT in our lives, where we are actually becoming to a greater extent than inefficient. Most of the companies and offices are using IT to maintain all their documents, records and dealings. They utter that IT is helping them to maintain all the complex works in a simpler way. For example, Apollo Hospital is a general chain hospital, which has opened in to our country recently. An employee of the hospital was asked about the system maintenance of the hospital, and he answered that from the ap rasement to pharmacy billing, every single thing are maintained by the IT system.They have interred linkage within the computers throughout the hospital, and everything is monitored centrally. All the patients and staff have got different ID IS IT BECOMING OUR PRIMARY NECESSITY? 5 numbers and servers where all information about them is saved. past the question arises, what would happen if the system fails for one day? The employee become silent, and says we cannot withal think the system failure for one hour, and it is impossible to run a day without these systems.The employee was also asked whether there is manual system, in case of tinge in the hospital, he says n o by chance if there is any system failure, nothing can run on that building, patients would have to wait for getting prescription as well as their appointment. He also say that, we are handicapped without technology, as they cannot perform any of the action without computers. Though IT allows them to maintain all the things very swiftly, it also makes them to be dependent o it. The most surprising fact is that, humans invent technology, and now they cannot proceed without the technologies.Nowadays, almost every people confess his or her dependency on IT, eyepatch in a survey people of different ages were asked about this dependency, and according to the figure 7, 62. 5% of the people verbalise that they are dependent on the information technology and figure 5 says that 100% of the people cannot approximate themselves without their cell phone or laptop. So, we can say that IT is making us handicapped, as often we cannot work on their unavailability. The young generations of toda y are now up to date with all the modish technology available. They are getting dependent, and blow money to taint different gadgets.Dingle (2010) gathers information from the research firm Gartner, where the author imbed that Global IT has spent US$1,4 trillion, from where a huge amount of money went for both hardware and software, which in turn helps us by increase the availability of computers in almost every corner of our lives. We are progressing, and new dodges are coming everyday companies like Apple, Nokia, Blackberry and etc. are contributing a lot to serve the necessity of the young generations. Dingle (2010) cites the research of Gartner who expects that the customers will slip away tranquillity about US$6 billion to get mobile applications.Teenagers and also adults are now using huge amount of money to satisfy their hunger for getting latest technology. As in figure 5, while in a survey, 96. 7% people said that they spend money on IT, whereas only 3. 3% said that they do not spend money for the usage. Many students, who lives abroad, works for hours to receive extra payments, by which they can fulfill their needs. All this factors are pointing out that IS IT BECOMING OUR PRIMARY NECESSITY? 6 our young generations are getting dedicated towards the IT, and wasting lots of money to get their needs.figurer invention is believed as a revolution in world, it was made for human beings, to make their life easier, faster and more comfortable. Many people believed that ahead we wasted most of our times by being in a manual system, where as those works can be done within a moment. From figure 7, we can see that 76% of the people said that information technology is making our life easier and faster. Students from different universities and institutes say that without information technology it would be much harder for them to complete the assignments and other research works.These technology are allowing them to communicate experts throughout the worldw ide, whenever they need they can go to the sack sites and gather their required information. The students argued that, they have lots of works to do, for which they need to be multi tasking. And information technology is giving them a route to be in(predicate) in their live. But if we consider about the ancient times, people were also successful at that times, scientists, engineers, researchers also did their challengeable jobs at those times. Without the help information technology, they did work hard and become successful in their lives.Again students said that on that time, life was not that much competitive, and for this current and present bit no one can work without the help of IT. While senior peoples said that, young generations do not want to work harder as they can get anything they want within a second. Nowadays it is old(prenominal) to get everything done by sitting in a computer, yet products can be ordered in internet, so our young generation is becoming lazy and inefficient because of IT. From Figure1 we can see that, 64% of the people surveyed says that information technology is making us inefficient.What is the use of that life, which is making us unproductive to work of our own? Time and tides wait for none, especially in this competitive world of ours, we cannot veritable(a) think about wasting a single second from our lives. Everyone is in the struggle to do well in their life and in order to get establish, people are getting away from their close ones, sometimes they are going abroad to study or for job. Information technology helps us to communicate with our love ones from a long distance, and that is also with a very lower cost.Facebook, twitter, all other IM and video conferencing services do not even let us to feel that we are away from our IS IT BECOMING OUR PRIMARY NECESSITY? 7 connections. Though it is letting us to communicate freely, it is also hampering teenagers and even the adults. Corbett (2009) concludes the popularity of cell phone amongst the teenagers and young adults. A survey conducted by the cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) amongst 2000 teens, were found that, their parents gave them mobile phone for their safety, and specially to be in contact with the teens while they are out of their house.But quiet about 57% of the teenagers said that they use cell phone to communicate with their friends. Not only that, the awesome features of taking pictures in cell phone and uploading instantly in Facebook or Twitter is quiet famous among them. schoolbook message and multimedia message are also a very popular way of communicating with peers. Corbett (2009), says about sexting, that is, while in a relation, girls send their nude pictures to their boyfriends, and after they break up, the boy upload those pictures on the internet, and in this way teenagers are affected by the impact of technologies.normally it is seen that, adolescents use IT for most of their works, most of them are unaware of the intentions of their friends, and this is how IT is affecting our teenagers and adults. Lastly, adults and teenagers cannot even think of themselves without their mobile, computers, and all other entertaining devices. They believe that, life is becoming so busy, they did not get extra time to communicate with others, and there are also no extra time to play out-of-door games, or to hangout with friends randomly.As from Figure 3, we can see that 75% of the people says that they use IT also for their personal purpose or else than academic or officials, and in Figure 4, 82. 5% people said that in this current situation IT is essential in every step of our life. callable to the lack of time, most of the peoples are now relying on the digital form of entertainment. As I have mentioned above that, students are willing to spend money for buying gadgets for them. Movies, games music is now considered as a form of entertainment. Students are found to do chatting in mess enger, while they are in class.In order to get all this facilities they often buy big-ticket(prenominal) mobile phones. Many people believe that this way of communication is diminish the intimacy and values between ones relation. Expenditure on the technologies is increasing, which in fact is reducing the development of all other sectors. For example, Bangladesh is a poor country, we have an unequal distribution of wealth, legion(predicate) times higher class people tide overs the lower class peoples for their survival. But as they are now up to new technologies everyday, they are spending much money for their own.Even the students and IS IT BECOMING OUR PRIMARY NECESSITY? 8 workers in abroad, they work hard to get all the latest inventions, they are not concern about their future, sort of of saving money for themselves they are wasting money by buying devices. We really feel proud to be Bangladeshi, after a long struggle, we became independent, and only within a age of 40 year s we positive a lot. May be the development is much less compared to the immaterial world, but we cannot deny that we recovered a lot.Most of the companies and systems in our country, rather than the public ones are running with the help of information technology. So, I think that IT is taking over humans, by working more efficiently, making us handicapped and also because we love to spend money for it, though it needed in our life for less time consuming lifestyle, for giving more options for interacting on the go, and also for our recreations. Small stores to big ones are using IT for their public toilet according to the example mentioned earlier IT can also create chaos for us.Human being can be rectified with in a moment, but a system failure cannot be adjust within a few seconds. We need time to fix certain types of error. So we can use IT for our convenience, but there should be an alternative for a system failure. If the super shop had a manual operating system, thusly th at would not cause that much harm to them. Also IT is hampering our young generations, while asking the solution of this problem, 17% people answered that there should be more restrictions on the teenagers, and 83% says that there should not be any reproach of technology, this results are shown in Figure 10.We invented information technology, and it is for our convenience. Human being are considered as the most prominent creation of God, no other thing can be compared with us, but all the above research and survey says that people are now getting inefficient. So I think people should use IT, but should not be that much dependent on it that it will be making them handicapped when there are no facility of IT. We should not consider ourselves incapable of doing any work that IT can do for us, it is us who makes computers, and no computer can work like humans.IS IT BECOMING OUR PRIMARY NECESSITY? 9 Reference attend Corbett, Don. 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Sample questionnaire pull in _______________________________ Sex ____________ Age ____________ 1.Do you support or like the invention of information technology for communicating? a. Yes- its excellent b. Yes its good c. Yes its needed d. Yes- but it is making us inefficient e. No it is not needed 2. How many times do you use your mobile, email or browser in a day? a. Never b. 1-5 times c. 6-10 times d. 11-15 times e. More than above 3. Do you use technology only for official or academic purpose? a. Yes b. No 4. Do you agree that, in this stage of life we need information technology in every step? a. Strongly agree b. Agree c.Neutral d. Disagree e. Strongly differ 5. Do you think that it is necessary to spend money for on the use of information technology? a. Yes b. No 6. Can you imagine yourself without your cell phone or laptop? a. Yes b. No c. No comment 7. What is your purview about the contribution of information technology in our daily life? ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ______________________ 8. Do you think that you are getting besides dependent of this te chnology? ____________________________________________________________ __________ 9. In your point of view, what are the impacts of information technology that are affecting our society and the young generations? ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ______________________ 10. Give your suggestion regarding the issue of getting dependent and other impacts of information technology. ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ _____________________ Thank you for your participation and cooperation Survey result 1. Do you support or like the invention of information technology for communicating? get word 1 2. How many times do you use your mobile, email or browser in a day? icon 2 3. Do you use technology only for official or academic purpose? FIGURE 3 4. Do you agree that, in this stage of life we need information technology in every step? FIGURE 4 5. Do you think that it is necessary to spend money for on the use of information technology?FIGURE 5 6. Can you imagine yourself without your cell phone or laptop? FIGURE 6 7. What is your opinion about the contribution of information technology in our daily life? FIGURE 7 8. Do you think you are getting overly dependent on this technology? FIGURE 8 9. In your point of view, what are the impacts of information technology that are affecting our society and the young generations? FIGURE 9 10. Give your suggestion regarding the issue of getting dependent and other impacts of information technology. FIGURE 10