Expanding IT: Blessing or Curse

1. Introduction

2. Evolution of Technology: According to Moore’s law the processing power of microchips

is doubling every 18 months.

3. Technology as a blessing

a. A tool for enhancing and managing the businesses

b. Make communication easy and quick: as it changed the

traditional means to modern means: The primary advantage of social
media is connectivity. People from all over the world can connect with each
other easily. Considering the fact, that our world has various religions and
belief systems that separate us and create boundaries, networking sites are
that one blessing that has eradicated these boundaries. Regardless of their
beliefs, religion or culture, this technology has promoted peace in a way. It
has made everyone stand equally on one platform without the existence of
such differences. It is the actual beauty of social media. You are able to
connect with anyone and share your thoughts and opinions with the world
without the fear of being judged on who you are.

c. Revolutionized health care industry and better health choices

d. Expand the entertainment industry: A source of enjoyment like

gaming, movies

e. Source of earning or employment: By expanding industries

employment and earning increase

f. Provide quick awareness and information about current

scenarios: Here it took the form of media: When technology did not give
birth to this innovation, people had no idea what was going around the
world. Now they are able to educate and update themselves with the current
happenings. Televisions and print media have limitations on them and they
do not convey the right information all the time, but this platform is
guaranteed to provide with the right information and facts which will require
a little bit of researching.

g. Good source of education: Similarly, networking sites have

immensely benefited the education sector all over the world. With the arrival
of online classes to the availability of all kinds of learning resources, every
student can easily educate themselves. Regardless of your location and
background, you can effortlessly increase your knowledge from anywhere
anytime and watch videos on websites like YouTube without paying for any
kind of expense and avail affordable services

h. Help in building opinion

i. Bridge between government and people

j. Protect the rights of human in certain scenarios

k. Helps in promoting political campaigns

l. E-governance: empowers the political arena

4. Constraints in the way of blessing

a. High cost of managing the new technology

b. Lack of internet facility in many parts of the world

c. Lack of technical knowledge for utilizing the benefits of

technology

d. Fear of Artificial intelligence as it will replace the labor of human

to machines
 f. Security threats and privacy issues due to easy accessibility of
data: hacking can ruin someone’s life. This also includes ruining their
reputation. Through hacking, a person can easily create false stories and
this can easily get spread all over the media like fire. Likewise, businesses
that have a bad reputation on networking sites can face financial disaster
and the inability to sell their products. Many frauds and scams have been
reported on social sites where individuals have been duped by other people
into believing something or buying something only to find out later that it was
false all along. There are many influencers and bloggers on Instagram and
Facebook and it’s hard to find out who offer authentic engagement and
which ones are just flashy frauds.

g. Health uncertainty because of its overuse causes the mental

instability: The excess use of networking sites has created many health
issues. These health issues include both physical and mental instability.
People who are addictive to these sites are experiencing many negative
side effects such as headache, eye strain, social withdrawal, and sleep
deprivation. Moreover, it’s triggering more sadness instead of wellbeing. We
are continuously comparing our lives with other people and the pressure to
look perfect all the time has made us go into depression.

5. How to minimize the hurdles and enhance the blessing

a. Strong cyber agency require in order to keep eye on all negative

agendas

b. Need of Strict rules and laws for the cyber illegal activities

c. Formulate policies for application developers for strong security

architecture

d. Invest in internet facilities to make it available everywhere

e. Encourage and engage the people by different methods in order

to convert their business online
 f. Make online system cost effective, more reliable, more genuine,
and more real

g. Develop authenticated applications for useful and relatively true

information

h. Increase the trend of sports and extracurricular activity

6. Case study on Pakistan whether it is curse or blessing

7. Conclusion

Quotes:
Sehrish Haneef - “Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology
with hatred is always a disaster.”

A survey showed that 52% of graduate students in the U.S.

found their online college-level education to provide a better
learning experience than their college-level classroom
education (Duffin, 2019).
 The international society has experienced an intense debate
between China and American when American government
blamed China’ HUAWEI company for stealing America
’sensitive data. Wikileaks is another case in point.