The Impacts of Information Technology on the

Society
Muhammad Abdullah Aftab
And
Muhammad Khan

Abstract
The Information Technology is nowadays pervasive worldwide. This is an incremental and disruptive
technology. The ever-increasing realm of information technology has helped to improve many fields of
public and private human life; like economy, business, information accessibility, governmental
organizations, education, social ways and means of communication and entertainment etc. It also affects
society adversely for example it allows terrorists to have instantaneous contact with each other. It serves as
a door for the influx foreign cultural practices, which eliminates the variety in traditions, making the World
similar everywhere. Excessive use of the internet for social communication weakens the lively
relationships between people and family. In addition, its wrong use spoils the moral values of the society
and especially of the youth.

1) Introduction:
1.1 Definitions:
Information technology is the technology acclimated to create, store, manipulate, deliver or actualize
information. The information comprises of data including texts, images and videos etc. The technology is
any mechanism capable of processing this data. Society can be defined as “a community, nation, or broad
grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests” [1].

1.2 Objective:
We shall use the common traditions, institutions and collective activities and interests as the basis for our
examination of the impact information technology has had on society. We shall also integrate this
examination with the impact of how information technology has changed the “way we work”. As well the
adventitious of animal errors that could action if things are done manually could as well be abhorred
provided the programs are developed befitting in apperception the exact requirements that are approved
afterwards and developed appropriately to abode the issues accurately after problems [1].

2) Governmental Impacts:
The “government” of a nation will be comprised of abounding assorted institutions. About developments in
information technology accept helped governments to advance their “service” to their citizens. Advances in
Database technology for archetype accept enabled the governments of assorted countries to adduce and
adviser statistical information that they can use to action artifice and administer the abridgement in an
added abreast way [1]. Information Technology as well has a above apply on the defence capabilities of
governments. This covers both a government’s adequacy to allowance war and their intelligence acquisition
capability. Advances in weapons technology and weapons architecture accept added the adequacy of
assorted governments’ armed armament [1]. Information Technology has as well had a above apply on a
government’s intelligence agencies. Encryption of acute information has enabled governments to admission
added security. About attempting to break information is as well as above breadth of plan for those active
by the government [1].
3) Impacts on Education:
More information available - This is one great thing about the internet that you can find all the information
in the world on it. This can help you will all your work etc. You can find out anything what is going on.
Quicker access to information for coursework- The internet is a great place to research information for the
topic that you are doing you can find all sorts of facts and opinions inside seconds.
More chance of distractions- the internet can be very distracting and you can easily lead away from the
topic that you are supposed to be doing for example, if you are on the computer doing your coursework and
something like msn pops up and says you have an email then you are going to click into an email and read it
and most likely to get into conversation [3].

4) Impact on business:
The advances in information technology accept that it had heavily afflicted bartering businesses in several
ways. There is an important role of information technology in today’s transaction-based businesses,
however, is to accommodate a bartering advantage. Advances such as online money transactions, online
shopping, internet banking, computer aided design, relational database technologies, spreadsheets, and chat
processing software all accommodate a bartering account to the business, as does automation of
accomplishment processes [1]. The use of information technology to adviser a business achievement can as
well accredit the business to highlight areas breadth they are not authoritative there is a lot of use of their
resources. The use of information technologies can as well admission the business assets through bartering
in the assorted accessible forums [1]. Developments such as the Internet and digital television accept
created new media and audiences through which and to which News & Media organisations can advertise
their information [1].

5) Economic impact:
As basement of accretion and information technology, accoutrement 24-hour admission at low amount to
about any affectionate of amount and artefact information adapted by buyers, will abate the information
barriers to able bazaar operation. This basement adeptness as well accommodate the agency for adeptness
real-time affairs and accomplish intermediaries such as sales clerks, banal brokers and biking agents, whose
action is to accommodate a capital information hotlink amidst buyers and sellers bombastic [2]. The
information technologies accept facilitated the change of added mail adjustment retailing, in which
appurtenances can be ordered bound by application telephones or computer networks and again
accomplished by suppliers through chip carriage companies that await abundantly on computers and
information technologies to ascend their operations [2]. The application of information technology on the
firms' amount anatomy can be best illustrated on the cyberbanking business example. The key areas of
amount abridgement if accustomed out an auction via cyber banking business rather than in an acceptable
abundance absorb concrete establishment, adjustment and execution, chump support, staffing, account
carrying, and distribution. Although ambience up and advance an e-commerce web website adeptness be
expensive, it is absolutely beneath big-ticket to advance such a storefront than a concrete one because it is
consistently open, can be accessed by millions about the globe, and has few capricious costs, so that it can
accommodate the demand. By advance one 'store' instead of several, alike account costs are alone [2].

Computers and information technologies acquiesce individuals to acquaint with one addition in agency to
acceptable face-to-face, telephonic, and accounting modes. They accredit collaborative plan involving
broadcast communities of actors who seldom, if ever, accommodated physically. These technologies
advance information infrastructures that are both all-around and consistently up, appropriately enabling 24-
hour action and asynchronous as able-bodied as ancillary interactions an allotment of individuals, groups,
and organizations [2].By abbreviation the anchored amount of employment, boundless telecommuting
should accomplish it easier for individuals to plan on adjustable schedules, to plan allotment time, to
allotment jobs, or to authority two or added jobs simultaneously. Since alteration administration would not
necessarily crave alteration one's abode of residence, telecommuting should admission job advance and
acceleration career advancement. This added adaptability adeptness as well abate job accent and admission
job achievement [2].

6) Criticism:
It is accepted acumen that humans today ache information overload. A lot of the information accessible on
the Internet is abridged and even incorrect. Humans absorb add of their time arresting extraneous
information just because it is accessible and they anticipate they should apperceive it. Therefore, it accept to
be advised how humans accredit believability to the information they aggregate in adjustment to ad-lib and
advance new believability systems to information consumers to administer the information overloads [2].

Technological advancement accordingly creates assurance on technology. Indeed the conception of basic
basement ensures assurance on that infrastructure. As absolutely as the apple is now abased on its transport,
telephone, and added infrastructures, it will be based on the rising information infrastructure. Assurance on
technology can accompany risks. Failures in the abstruse basement can cause collapse of the amusing
functionality. Blackouts of long-distance, blast service, acclaim abstract systems, cyberbanking, funds
alteration systems, cyber hackings, viruses and added such basic communications and information
processing casework retains a potential to cause acute boundless bread-and-butter disruption. However, it is
apparently absurd to abstain abstruse dependence. Therefore, what accept to be advised is the
acknowledgment brought from assurance on technologies with an apparent anticipation of failure, no
applicable acting at hand, and top costs as an after-effect of abortion [2].

7) Good points:
There are a lot of absolute things to do with amusing information for archetype you can acquaint with
humans at the added end of the apple there is no absolute to how far you can acquaint as continued as there
is addition getting who is able to acknowledgment to your email / social media comments. You can
accommodate a lot added accompany over the amusing arrangement and can align to accommodate new
humans [3]. The internet is an admirable affair if it comes to analytic for information. Humans who would
like to apprentice new things can do this via the internet. You do not charge to apprehend paragraphs and
paragraphs of information you can just get the acknowledgment you charge by a bang of abrasion [3]. This
is one abundant affair about the internet that you can acquisition all the information in the ample on it. This
can provide information to you in all your work. You can acquisition out annihilation what is traveling on.
Quicker admission to information for coursework- The internet is an abundant abode to analysis
information for the affair that you are doing. You can acquisition all sorts of facts and opinions in abnormal
[3].

8) Effects on Family Relations

Our fixation with technology has created new routines that are very different from traditional notions of
family time. The increasing ways we are using technology in isolation from one another is reflected by the
latest figures from Britain's communications regulator, Ofcom. A recent study found that for the first-time
children aged between 12 and 15 are spending as much time online as they are watching television, about
17 hours a week for each [4].
We may enjoy online relationships using social media sites like Facebook or Twitter, for example, but the
difference between these kinds of interactions and interactions with people in the physical world is clearly
vast. As long as we expect no more from these online relationships than they can give, no good reason
exists why we can't enjoy the power of social media sites to connect us efficiently to people we'd otherwise
not touch. The problem, however, comes when we find ourselves subtly substituting electronic relationships
for physical ones or mistaking our electronic relationships for physical ones. We may feel we're connecting
effectively with others via the Internet, but too much electronic-relating paradoxically engenders a sense of
social isolation [7].
Besides that, ICT had also created more illegal action, criminal damage and criminal behavior as hacking,
fraud, identity theft and pornography [8].
I would argue parents must first think about their own use of technology. The internet has irrevocably
blurred the boundaries between work and home, meaning many parents are still working in one form or
another when they are at home with their family. What message does a child receive when he or she is
telling a story about something important that happened at school and mum stops listening to reply to an
urgent message from the office? [4]
Children learn by watching us. If we want them to feel connected with the world around them rather than
the cyber-world, they need to see us enjoying activities grounded in the real world. Technology is now an
integral part of our lives, for good or for ill, and as parents we need to show our children exactly what it is
to move offline to enjoy and value our family life [4].

9) Psychological Impacts:
Goldberg notes that "Internet addiction can cause the denial or the avoidance of other current issues of life."
The addictive behaviour expresses the socioemotional immaturity in the individual's inability to build a true
and solid psychosocial identity. The cyber-dependence is characterized by "all mental disorders related to
the use of computer equipment, harmful to the human individual". This latest disorder can be diagnosed
with tests which highlighted the obsessional behaviour. The results of these tests should be interpreted, but
with caution [9].

Death to the heart, machines stand sovereign,

Engines that crush all sense of human kindness [10].

Conclusion:
The Information Technology has a wide range of impacts in the society. This study shows that it has helped
improving human life in certain fields, namely; in governmental institutions, in education sector, in the
business and in economy. Fast-running government machinery helps dealing the problems with great speed
and accuracy, easy access to information of every kind helps the educational process, the online money
transactions and online shopping facilities help meet the supply and demand in the market. There are,
however, many negative impacts of this development, as well. It badly effects the family relationships and
poses certain threats to a healthy psyche and behaviour. The It machines overwhelmingly reduces the power
to resist from certain harmful things from inflicting the mind and the body. Children are getting addicted to
internet and the moral values are at stack. The fact is, these facilities have the potential to improve human
life to a great extent, provided it is not used unchecked.
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