advantage and disadvantage of modern technology?
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ADVANTAGES:\nBack then, we didn’t have all of the wonderful advantages of modern technology. For instance, if we wanted to make copies of documents, we simply inserted more sheets of carbon in the typewriter.\n\nOur telephones were the good old-fashioned black variety pro­vided free of charge by Ma Bell. Our offices were in the local bank building. I think the phones were installed when the building was built around the turn of the cen­tury, and hadn’t required service since. There was no such thing as a car phone.\n\nOur dictating machines re­sembled Thomas Edison’s original recording device. Dictation was re­corded by a needle on a round plastic cylinder.\n\nSummers and winters could be uncomfortable. When it got hot, we loosened our ties and sometimes removed our suit coats. We tried putting a fan in the window once but it blew all the papers off the desks.\n\nIn the winter, if we got cold, we had an old crescent wrench that we banged on the radiators. Someone down in the bowels of the building would then send up a blast of steam in the pipes. The office would then get too hot and we would have to open the windows to cool off.\n\nTypewriters were operated man­ually and had no “memory”.\n\nTo mail letters, we had a large roll of stamps. All you had to do was tear one off and lick it.\n\nToday, we have all of the advan­tages of modern technology.\n\nIf we want to make copies of documents, we don’t even use car­bon paper; we have a wonderful photostat machine that even en­larges or reduces the size of copies at the push of a button.\n\nOf course, the machine has a mind of its own. The manufacturer (which advertises that it makes nothing but photostat machines) has a large staff of service people, one of whom makes his home at our office. When something goes wrong, his explanation is that it’s not the machine—we just use it too much.\n\nWhen we moved into our new office building in 1980, we couldn’t get the old black phones supplied by Ma Bell. We had to purchase our own telephone system. It has all kinds of features the old black phones didn’t have, including auto­matic dialing of up to 25 numbers, automatic redial, hands-free use, etc.\n\nOf course, whenever we have a lightning storm, or if we have what’s called a “power surge,” the phones go out, disconnecting all calls in process. Someone then has to run down to the basement and press the reset button.\n\nCar phones are another great advancement in telephone service. When they first came out, they were status symbols, like a Mercedes. Now, the price has come down so that just about anyone can afford them and they’re no longer status symbols (car phones, that is, not Mercedeses).\n\nOur dictating machines are now hand-held tape recorders. This makes it convenient to do dictation wherever one happens to be. One of my partners, for instance, has a rare combination of talents; he can drive his car while shaving, dictat­ing, talking on the phone and eating breakfast, all at the same time.\n\nToday, typewriters have been re­placed by computers which are networked and can communicate with one another. When I come into the office these days, I half expect to hear the computers carrying on a conversation - in computerese, of course. Since I’m a relic of the pre­computer age, I tread very lightly when I’m near the computers for fear of getting them “mad” at me.\n\nThe building is heated and cooled by high-efficiency heating and cool­ing units. We have four zones on the main floor. The heat and air conditioning are turned up and down in the morning and evening, without the aid of a crescent wrench. It’s all automatic.\n\nFor three months in the spring and fall, according to our employ­ees, the building is too cold in the morning and too hot during the day, or too hot in the morning and too cold during the day, depending on the season. Also, although all zones are set at the same tem­perature, there is a variance of three to four deg
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Advantage\n\n1 connected to the world\n2 e-mail communication\n3 More control than television\n4 develops understanding of logical patterns\n5 could create own web site for the world to see\n6 multi-entertainment, music, video, stories\n7 full text of breaking news stories\n8 technology always improving\n9 hard drive prices have went down\n10 practice your typing\n\nDisadvantages\n\n1 could waste needless time surfing \n2 news stories biased\n3 too many sites listed in search engine\n4 some information not credible\n5  high speed connection cosly\n6 hard drive could be three generations old in one year\n7 not enough innovative thinking by computer corportations\n8 too many bugs in certain browsers\n9 too many high school students plagerize\n10 makes researching too easy and tough research is avoided
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We all know the disadvantages are death, misery,repression, fright, bodily injuries, rampages, evilness.\nThe advantages would be population control, improved economy for many, advances in technology, employment, nationalism( may unite people who have a common enemy), education about other societies, spreading of ideas.
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New Technology is Great as well as Bad.\n\nWhen it comes to great, you can perform complex things very easily. There are entertainment and other stuff that can be easily achieved by the use of new emerging technologies.\n\nWhen it comes to the bad side, you get several privacy issues where a legitimate user is blackmailed by an ethical hacker and blackmailed. There are also crimes that start through technology. (e.g. Chatting).\n\nSo, it is us, who have to prioritize the technology according to our needs and gain the maximum benefit.\n\nBYE
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Advantage is mainly ease of use as you can avail these facilities on net or phone or through ATMs however disadvantage is you loose human touch and worse is if something goes wrong it is very difficult to get it corrected.
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Advantages\n# Profit from your passion, hobby or area of expertise...\n# Work from anywhere...\n# Start Easily...\n# Start Cheaply\n# Enjoy Huge Profit Margins..\n# Your Business is automated, no worries of inventory or late delivery\n\nDisadvantages :\n# People don't treat you right.. they think you are either one of those scammers or have porn sites :D\n# Because the investment is low.. there is too much competition. If you want to jump into this field, stick to it, it'll make money...\n# you become TOO lazy
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Communication in the 21st century:Benefits of the Internet
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Advantages:\n\nCool\nHi Tech \nGood Salary\nNice benefits\nRelatively Secure\nEnjoyable\nGrowth prospects\n\nDisadvantages\n\nStress\nFamily life is somewhat compromised\nsometimes very monotonous\ntoo many engineers
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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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Nanotechnology comprises technological developments on the nanometer scale, usually 0.1 to 100 nm (1/1,000 µm, or 1/1,000,000 mm). \nNanotechnology covers a wide range of industries, and therefore the potential benefits are also widespread. Telecommunications and Information technology could benefit in terms of faster computers and advanced data storage.\n\nFor the near-term, critics of nanotechnology point to the potential toxicity of new classes of nanosubstances that could adversely affect the stability of cell membranes or disturb the immune system when inhaled, digested or absorbed through the skin.\ninformation taken from the following link:(also, go there for additional info)
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Extended life span\nBetter health\nBiochips and implants that aid people with all kinds of bisabilities.\nAnd later...\nHuman designed mutations and designer babies.\nThere will be a lot of problems, of ocurse, but in the future, maybe we will be able to use technology instead of being used by it.  If we developed technologies, maybe they have also been misunderstood.  Maybe tech is our evolutive advantage and we should embrace it instead of fear it.
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Advantages - Availability of Information\n\nDisadvantages - Media Bias (they decide what information you hear)
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Advantages\n- Solar energy is renewable (i.e. it will not deplete)\n- Solar energy is  clean (it does not give out pollutants)\n- Solar energy is readily available (there is sunshine quite often)\n\nDisadvantages\n- Solar energy is difficult to harness (technology is kind of advanced now, but still, the energy absorbed is quite little)\n- Solar energy cannot be stored (if we rely totally on solar energy and we can't store it, what are we to do on a dark day or at night?)
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ADVANTAGES: Most powerful mechanical computational devices, able to solve complex problems such as playing games or recognizing patterns, can model complex mathematical equations (such as paterns in virus structures to find cures).\nDISADVANTAGES: Prohibitively expensive for home use, generate tremendous ammounts of heat and thus need to be kept in strictly controlled environment, relatively expensive to design and maintain, are ussually designed with systems to solve a specific problem or type of problem and are thus difficult to switch from one task to another, require a great deal of space.
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What technology?\nBoth of what? benefit and exploitation?\nCould you ask again in the form of a question?\n-->
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It depends.\n\nIn some respects yes very, because think of all the medical advances that have come about because of technology.  Think about the fact that we can now travel to the moon, take pictures of distant planets, fly across the ocean in a matter of hours instead of taking days,weeks,or even months.\n\nSo Yes, technology has helped us in many ways, but as with everything there is a downside.\n\nNow everyone wants you to multitask, which doesn't mean you get anything done any faster or better.  You can't take your time and focus on one thing, instead there are emails to write, text messages to respond back to, voice mail to check, and phone calls to return.  \n\nThere are computer crashes and freezes, which take time out of your day, when you could've had your work done had the computer not froze or crashed.\n\nThere are people who no longer have a job because they are replaced by a machine, or they don't understand how to use the machine.  So, now maybe they can't feed their families or keep a roof over their head anymore.\n\nOn the downside of technology we are really moving towards having only rich and poor, and the poor will simply *NOT* be able to keep up with the rich when it comes to learning about technology and being able to use the most updated products, and since for good or ill technology is now a requirement of most workplaces, if you can't keep up again you may be out of a job.\n\nTechnology has given us wonderful things such as the microwave, but has also given us horrible things such as the Atomic bomb.  \n\nThe problem is not technology in and of itself, it's that humans cannot seem to control the technology that they invent.  \n\nTechnology has to be created and used in a responsible manner, and humans should always not lose sight that their first responsibility should be to the other humans, animals and plants that they share this planet with.\n\nIf people would keep all of that in mind, and put that first, instead of putting money, and the technology itself first; we would probably move forward with better technology that will help make our lives better.\n\nAs it stands right now, we have technology that makes are lives better and worse at the same time.
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Advantages: Bring communication from the outside world to those who are isolated by geography or political repression but have the necessary receiving equipment. Such communications can educate; can save lives by warning about impending natural disasters; can inspire change by relating the lives of those in freer societies. Imaging and directional RF receiving satellites can help search and rescue, evacuation planning. \nDisadvantages: Every potentially advantageous function can be used disadvantageously. Can enable repressive regimes to propagandize, spy, direct weapons fire.