Intro to STS Activity

List down 5 technologies that are frequently used in your place and identify their advantages
and disadvantages. In the next part, list down ways of how you can lessen the disadvantages of
these technologies.
1. Smartphones
Advantages:
 Keep your loved ones in touch, either through calls, text or images.
 You may know where you are and find easy ways and routes to go anywhere,
especially in an unknown place.
 You can make the world listen to your voice in a touch.
 You can spend your time wisely reading the news or doing some official work.
 Can entertain you with games, music or movies.
 Can avail the Customer service offers to be easily accessible.
Disadvantages:
 The electromagnetic radiation will be high because of the heavy internet usage and
might lead to health problems.
 Even many psychological issues such as loneliness, being suspicious all the time,
feeling self-centered etc. are caused by using a smartphone and being online, for
most of the time.
 Spending most of the time on your phone creates neck problems and sleep
deprivation.
 Exposure to unwanted things on the internet affects a child’s growth mentally and
even physically.
 As too much of anything is good for nothing, depending on a smartphone for
everything makes you addicted.
 Being online for most of the time keeps you away from having real experiences and
having real friends, to share your mind.
 Forwarding the messages and sharing the videos online regarding humanity, one
might forget the real meaning behind it.
 Few of them get really addicted that they text or watch videos while on roads and
talk on the phone while driving, which causes serious trouble as being busy makes
you react slow.
 Usage of Apps by not having complete awareness might lead to the leakage of
personal information, which could be really dangerous.
2. Television
Advantages:
 Free entertainment
 Educational channels
 Television brings family and friends together
 Cure for loneliness
Disadvantages:
  TV can waste our time
 Shows can be full of violence and graphic images
 Television can make us antisocial
 Overstimulated brains
3. Internet
Advantages:
 The speed of communication becomes faster which is obtained through the web.
Families and friends can confine touch easily.
 Anyone can find information on almost any imaginable subject. Plenty of resources
are often found through the program in minutes.
 For instance, we can gain readily available help for our homework online.
 The web has now become a neighbourhood of education. Education like online class
is definitely administered using the web. Teachers can upload their teaching videos
on the web.
Disadvantages:
 Internet addiction is detrimental to not only fitness but also psychological state.
 Hacker programs a virus which gets into the pc and ruins valuable data. Users’
personal information are often accessed by culprits when used on the web, leading
to significant economic loss.
 Less interaction and face-to-face communication, actually, may end in a decrease in
social abilities.
 The unnecessary emails, advertisements, etc. are sometimes said to be spam
because they need the power to hamper the system and make the users face many
problems.
4. Computer
Advantages:
 Multitasking is one among the main advantage of computer. Person can do multiple
tasks, multiple operations at a same time; calculate numerical problems within few
seconds.
 Now computer isn’t just a calculating device. Now a day’s computer has vital role in
human life. One of the most advantages of computer is its incredible speed, which
helps human to finish their task in few seconds.
 One among the basis advantage of computer is which will perform not only
calculations but also with accuracy.
 Computers can protect our data.
 Person can save huge data within a coffee budget. Centralized database of storing
information is that the major advantage which will reduce cost.
 Completes tasks that might be impossible for humans to complete.
 Computer helps the user in better understanding and communication with the other
devices.
Disadvantages:
 Virus may be a worm and hacking is just an unauthorized access over computer for a
few illicit purposes. Virus can go to other system from email attachment, viewing an
infected website advertisement, through removable device like USB etc.
  Online cyber-crime means computer and network may have utilized in order to
commit crime. Cyber stalking and fraud are the points which comes under online
cyber-crimes.
 Mainly past generation wasn’t used of the pc or they need the knowledge of
computer they faced an enormous problem when computer came in field.
 Computers are expensive. Even the foremost affordable computers are still very
expensive for the typical person in South Africa. Since computers empower people.
 If you’ve got ever spent hours browsing the web or watching videos on YouTube,
then you recognize how distracting computers can be! Because of their high
entertainment value.
 With the speed that computers and other electronics get replaced, all of the old
devices that get thrown away have a big impact on the environment.
5. Transportations
Advantages:
 A relatively much lower capital Investment is required in road transport, compared
to other modes of transport such as railways and air transport which are much
costlier.
 The greatest advantage of road transport, that makes it the core lifeline of the
transport industry, is its ability to provide door-to-door, from source to destination,
warehouse-to-warehouse, and door step services.
 Road transport is most flexible and adaptable with an outreach into the most
remote areas that are inaccessible by rail, air or water.
 Road transport is the only transport that is viable, economically and otherwise, for
short distances. It is way more cost effective and quicker to cart goods and people
over short distances by road.
 The risk of damage to goods is considerably lessened due to the elimination of
intermediate loading and handling of goods.
Disadvantages:
 Road transport infrastructure and travel is vulnerable to weather changes and
seasons. For instance, during rains or floods, roads become unfit and unsafe for use.
 There is definitely a high risk of accidents and breakdowns in case of road transport.
This makes motor transport not a very predictable or safe option, as compared to
rail transport.
 Not the Best Option for Long Distance and Heavy Cargo

To lessen the disadvantages of Gadgets or Technology

 Stop spending so much time on your gadgets or technologies.
 Identify what you want your relationship with your gadgets to look like.
 Figure out how much time you’re currently spending on your gadgets.
 Improve transportations.
 Improve Sidewalks with Trees and Lighting.
 Clearly Marked Crosswalks.