benefits and drawbacks of using computers in modern life?
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Benefits are numerous. Computers enable us to make life easy by increasing the efficiency of offices, schools and persons. Science and Arts can make great progress with the help of computers. And we enjoy the fruits of them. Instant communication bridges the gap between people - relatives, friends and enemies, as well as researchers and thinkers.\n\nHowever, computers are not without their drawbacks. They can create an illusion of the world which may be different from reality. Many become so dependent on computers that they feel helpless without. Also, you can get ache, cramps, blood clots and impaired vision from excessive use of computer. Without going outdoors or using cars, together with physical inactivity can even kill a person. Because these can beget diabetes or other serious ailments.\n\nMan will certainly overcome these bad effects and derive much benefits from use of computers, in days to come.
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It all depends. About 99% of all people use the computer to send emails, use instant messenger, play solitaire, download music etc. \n\nHowever, there are some computer applications that are worth thousands of dollars, or millions, or more. So it all depends.
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You're going to have to look this up in your book or something, computers have thousands of uses, from simple email to playing movies to sorting files, etc. etc.
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It's an interesting topic, one to get student's thinking.\n\nI can see a laptop being useful, not the other items.\n\nI plan on going back to school and want to buy a laptop for a few reasons. One, taking notes cramps my hand severely (carpal tunnel acts up with a lot of writing). I can type way faster than I can write, with no hand cramps.  I also need to do research papers, and again, taking notes in the library is time consuming and hand cramping.  \n\nI also plan on taking online classes, and having a laptop will let me log in and take the classes at home, in the library or when I travel.  My desktop computer gets used by other family members, is not portable, so I need my very own computer.\n\nSince all papers need to be typed, a computer of one's own is very, very useful. \n\nYes, you can do all the above without a computer, and when I went through school and got my BA in the years, bc (before computer), I used a typewriter and had to retype things, splice them together, type again, use whiteout, cut and paste using scissors and glue (literally).  The computer makes all that obsolete.\n\nLaptop, definately. \n\nipod?  nah.  just put music on the computer. and buy a computer that plays dvd movies too.\n\ndistracting?  Anything can be distracting, even something like your own thoughts. Distractions will always be available, it's a matter of self-discipline.\n\n\nHave fun with your paper.
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yes...it gives you something to do with friends, you're not going to huddle around a computer and shop together.  Internet takes all the fun out of shopping, even though it is fast and very efficient!
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Pro's - More efficient and get more accomplished, GLOBAL COMMUNICATION and BUSINESS!  Increased competition. Unlimited Information at your keyboard.  Everything is current and updated instantly.  Personal safety has also increased with the cell phone and onstar\n\nCon's - Less active/healthy.  Impatience/Everything has to be NOW!  Someone can ALWAYS get a hold of you.  There are new ways of being "rude"  People don't enjoy the little things anymore.\n\nA good book you might be interested in is "The World Is Flat"  by:  Thomas Friedman
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No pros and not contras. Computer is a very useful tool as, e.g., screwdriver is. Just use it when you really need it. Do you use a screwdriver to play chess or poker? :-)
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Internet is a tool, and it can be very powerful to make really good friends.\nBut, you always have to be careful, because risks exist.\nIt should be an alternative way to meet people, no the main way.\nVirtuality is great because saves distances and cultural barrels but it never can't replace the reality.\nIt should be a complement.\nAbout theft identity, money stealers and computer viruses, if you don't make your entire life around a computer, risks are smaller.\nTake care.
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The greater availability of low-cost pcs will change the way computers are used in school for one simple reason.  They will be widely used in schools.  It is amazing that basic computer skills are still not taught in most american schools, but it is also try throughout the world.  Some guy at MIT is on the verge of mass producing a laptop that will cost about $100 per unit and will be distributed worldwide to schools.  This will allow people in the poorest areas of the world to have access to encyclopedia and other reference books that would otherwise never be available to them.  These machines will also be distinctively designed so as to reduce their value on the black market, because people will know they were stolen from school children.  The quality of education will increase dramatically and all of society will benefit as a result.
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I just got this computer 3mos. ago.After swearing for 15yrs.,that I would never get one.I don't know about the world for sure if it is better,I think the computer really has made our lives more complicated.\n\nBUT I just might be old fashioned.
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Working in the IT department, computers are the backbone of our E-business and a major tool for other non-networked small businesses.  \nWe recently have jumped on the Oracle wagon and remodeled our site. Computers are utilized with Web based mail, Purchasing, Receiving, Fiscal Services, Customer Relations and HR at the Enterprise level allowing for more functionality across the board between departments and up/down the department organization ladder.\n\nSee source link below for ideas. Then Google or Yahoo! for articles in your interests.\n\nHope it helps.
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With every new technology comes good and bad.\n\nFor instance, I'm a trainer for a living, so having mobile technology such as a laptop with wireless and remote access is great for my job, but I'm always at work now. Even my RDO's are spent putting out spot fires before they become raging inferno's to deal with on my return.\n\nHowever that being said, they probably wouldn't be raging inferno's, it's just a perception oh no something to do, deal with it. \n\nThat being said, Imagine if you had to fax all your letters, or send via snail mail. Data transfer and communication is a great asset that has been bought to us by technology. \n\nWe can send an email off and mark it as waiting on someone else on our to do lists instantly. \n\nWe can prepare macros and programs to remove mundane and pointless repetitive labour from our lives. Mail merges mean one letter, one list of names and addresses, two clicks, and bang, merged and printed.\n\nDepending on the Job technology can be a nuisance, handy, or an outright neccessity as some industries have grown to depend heavily on it.\n\nThe greatest benefit by far of computers is Databases.\n\nYou can either file your clients in a filing cabinet, search for them, add to them, re-file them. Or you can build a database, build a front end for that database, and once down, that time and money pays for itself, as repetitive and manual mundane filing is dead.\n\nI've worked with databases with millions and millions of entries, and I could not even imagine manually filing such an incredible amount of hard copy information.\n\nThe one neccessity for implementing technology as such, is a disaster recovery plan. You MUST be able to recover from a crash before becoming dependant on technology.
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Yes, mankind has become far too dependent on technology, if we lost all of our technology tomorrow, I am convinced that only myself and few friends I know have the skills to survive without what we take for granted today. For me, computers are fun, like this answering stuff, but I sure don't base my life on it...its a dangerously fragile world we live in. Mankind survived far longer without all of the crap we have today, but most of have lost the basic survival skills that used to come naturally to us.
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People can collaborate on a project/job at the same time.  project coordination/management\nPeople communciate distance is reduced. email, teleconference\nBetter presentation with software capable with less cost. word processing\nData storage and retrieve is faster and effective.  database, info search\nSecurity of data is better. encryption and remote backup\nRealtime of info. internet\nMonotonous work all done by pc. staff can be more creative
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What does a computer best of?\n1. If you have a computer, retrieval of data is a matter of seconds. If you have no computer, imagine going around the files and papers and not counting the dust and stress it will be just to find record.\n2. All routine jobs, like computation is so much easy.  Making copies of your letters are faster. \n3. Access to information is better.  No need to go to library  and wait for the queue.  You can access the world libraries and ideas with other people and other nationalities and who knows, the author himself.
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Blessing.  Certainly there are problems to solve, but those problems will be solved by further technology, not by banning what we already have.  \n\nIt would be possible to provide a long list of the benefits of technology in the modern world, but I will cite a single example:  modern communication technology allows me, a complete stranger, to answer your question.  We never had anything in the past like the information tool we have now in the internet.  No matter how good a library one had available, it would still take a lot of time and know-how to research every question.  Now, it's all here at your fingertips.\n\nAsk any modern physician how many of his patients would have been worse off ten years ago, let alone fifty.  Ask any research scientist what has happened in his field as a result of modern technology.  The world does not stand still, and we cannot make it do so.\n\nRemember, nothing is an unmixed blessing.  Certainly the internet brings its own problems, but so did the technology of the crossbow!
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The effects of face-to-face communication and the deterioration of social skills.\n\nI am afraid ourselves and our future kids are too wired for the web and with technology that we lose the skills to talk to people properly, read body language well, and practice empathy for another fellow human being.\n\nTo quote from Pavaroti (the tenor) many years ago, "We cannot make love through mail" pretty much sums up the limitations of computers.