Essay On The Impact Of Technology On Our Lives

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Technology is a very broad description which can relate to several branches of science and study. It can be related to information technology such as smart phones and tablet computers or nanotechnology such as machines fabricated to the size of a molecular scale. Technology has touched almost every person’s life in this world to the point where there is a dependency on how people live and operate today compared to their parents of the previous generations. Purchasing goods and conducting banking transactions can be carried out at any time no matter which part of the world you are located in, as long as you have a telecommunication device that has access to the internet, almost every daily task is possible in a time and cost efficient manner. I am going to look at the impact of technology on our lives from a personal aspect, what we use in our lives today, how it affects on our job or studies and our family & friends. I will also look at how technology has impacted the way we do business, politics, education and the health system, which are the main components of public life. In my private life, which is mainly focused around my childcare course, I use information technology systems of…show more content…
For example, social networking sites such as Facebook and Tuenti (Spanish networking site) contain a lot of personal information which is becoming more and more accessible to companies and governments across the world. Wikileaks is such an entity which has brought to light this year how so much of the information we post on the internet through these sites is being accessed by global corporations in order to profile our behaviours and tastes from a marketing standpoint. Our personal information is now a commodity which can be sold (unknown to us) and used for the gains organizations, governmental or

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