IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY IN OUR SOCIETY

INTRODUCTION

❖ Technology is an essential part of our lives today and few can imagine
living without. We achieved a lot with the help of technology.

❖ Technology shapes the future and it can help to make it compatible with
nature.

❖ Technology refers to the use of tools, gadgets and resources that help us
control and adapt to our environment.

❖ It also refers to the use of machines and utensils which make our daily lives
simpler and more organized.

❖ Technology is the basis of a society, and it affects all civilizations past,

present, and future.
❖ Technology has many benefits but at the same time it can have negative
consequences.

❖ Technology affects our society significantly.

❖ For example one of the most advanced inventions is the computer. The
computer might be considered the greatest invention ever (next to the
telephone and light bulb) and we are constantly finding new ways to
improve it.

❖ Computers influence many aspects of our lives, including: medicine,

communications, mathematics, entertainment, business, agriculture, and
all other sciences.
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Modern technology can be considered a
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direct consequence of the innovations and
studies in the fields of science and
engineering.

➢ Importance of Technology in Education

❖ Technology plays a significant role in
the educational field.
❖ Math, reading and writing skills can all be
improved using technological advances.
❖ Students can prepare for their future using
educational materials that are easily
available.
❖ Technology encourages learning in a positive
manner. It improves students’ skill sets.
➢ Importance of Technology in Business

❖ Technology has also helped small

businesses evolve and expand quickly.
❖ The use of social networking, video
conferencing, virtual office tools and other
such techniques have removed all
boundaries, which, in the past, prevented
growth.
❖ Business technology has helped improve
communication.
❖ Employers are able to screen, recruit
and hire potential candidates quickly; they
are also able to inform about vacancies to
larger number of applicants.
➢ Importance of Technology in Healthcare
❖ The importance of technology in healthcare can be summarized with this single
sentence: “Technology saves lives”.
❖ Creation of social support networks for patients.
❖ Self management tools and resources that patients can use with ease.
❖ Easy access to accurate and actionable health information for patients and families.
❖ Quick communication and resolution of health risks and public health emergencies.
❖ Provision of newer opportunities to culturally diverse and hard to access nations.
❖ Improvement of quality and safety in health care.
❖ Improved public health infrastructure.
➢ Importance of Technology in Healthcare (Cont…)
❖ Facilitation of clinical and consumer decision making.
❖ Development of health skills.
❖ Health technology has improved organization and efficiency.
❖ It has helped to eliminate ambiguity and every record right from the billing to
diagnostic and treatment can be maintained for easy access for healthcare providers.
❖ By using software and hardware tools, profiles of patients can be created so
doctors can provide standardized treatment.
❖ This helps improve patient outcomes and thus reduces cost of health care.
➢ Importance of Technology in Communication

❖ Almost everyone today has a phone, a computer, and uses both to

communicate with their friends, family, and business.
❖ Technology has changed the way that people communicate.
❖ Skype is a video chat option that is one of the newer technologies in
communication.
❖ Skype is also used by business for conference calls and has multiple uses,
allowing people to communicate much more effectively, no matter where they
are located.
➢ Importance of Technology in Travel

❖ An important impact of technology on society has been travel. .

❖ Advances in trains, planes, and cars, traveling has become a favorite past time
for many people.
❖ In larger cities, many people avoid owning cars due to the availability of
inexpensive public transportation usually by train.
❖ Plane flights are also very safe and people can travel from one country to
another in less than a day.
❖ This improvement is made possible by engineers, architects, and other
professionals who wanted to increase opportunities for any person to see and
travel throughout the world.
➢ Importance of Technology in Industrial Operations

❖ Technology helps companies in managing changes in operations.

❖ Companies have reduced costs by making a revision of business processes
and removing actions that customers find it less valuable.
❖ Both businesses and consumers have benefited from improvements
driven by technology such as online ordering, traveling without obtaining
tickets physically and inventory time management.
❖ We tend to think of inventions as modern gadgets, yet there are Stone Age
innovations that we still use today. Think of inventions that still exists in the
21st century.
❖ Some examples might be farming, cooking, games etc.
❖ Society pushes us to invent and innovate new products every day.
❖ We as a society demand more and better products all the time. Do we
stop to look at the affect this has on us as a society and a nation.
❖ Stop and think about how technology effects you both positively and
negatively every day.
CONCLUSION

❖ There are numerous benefits from technology.

❖ It is remarkable how a society can easily adapt and never cease to ask
questions. Our collective consciousness, with its curiosity, has brought the
human life to a place where we can refrigerate our food instead of hunting
like our ancestors did.
❖ Prior to technological advancement, there were no established societies.
❖ The positive effects of technology on society has brought progress and
allowed us to reach new heights that were never conceived of before.
❖ Without science and technology we are left stagnant.
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