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THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF
TECHNOLOGY:

ECONOMIC
• Increase in labor productivity
• More human capital
• Providing better living standard
• Output increases
• Rapid increase in supply
• Trade
• Advancement in infrastructure
• No wastages of resources
• Useful labor force
POLITICS
• Chat bots
 Capable of reaching larger audiences
 Able to provide information when people are paying
most attention
 An easy way to give credibility and personality to a
party or politician

• Information is more available than ever

 Captivate their audiences
 Tell compelling stories
 Be available to followers around the clock
 Register voters
 Launch successful awareness and targeted campaigns
• Targeted Campaigns
 Personalized email campaigns
 Responsive website design that reacts differently to
repeat visitors
 Targeted paid ads

• Security and the Rise of New Issues

 Personalized email campaigns
 Responsive website design that reacts differently to
repeat visitors
 Targeted paid ads

• Social Influence and Interaction

ETHICS
1.Privacy/confidentiality
 One cannot pass someone else’s private information to others.

 Websites use cookies to gather information about users, but

disabling cookies prevents users from doing necessary things at
some websites.

• Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act: to protect

personal information for children under the age of 13.

• The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: to

protect the privacy of students’ educational records and parental
rights to informed consent.
2.Spamming/Hacking
3.Property/Copyright
 Copyright is an important issue since today’s music and
movie companies fight for their copyrights. However, the
internet provides many websites to users to access these
companies’ products illegally.

4.Netiquette
 main purposes of the internet is to serve as a
communication tool. All chat rooms provide easy and cheap
access to find friends or just to post ideas about anything.

 Does not give people the right to send offensive pictures

or messages to anybody
 5.Accuracy/Trust wordiness
 Inaccurate information can cause confusion in society,
and even medical and legal issues.

 protect them from citing or reading incorrect information.

SOCIAL
1.Technology has mechanized agriculture
 The use of technology in agriculture has also resulted in
the manufacturing of genetic crops which can grow fast and
they can be resistant to many pests and diseases.

2.Technology has improved transportation

 Transportation is one of the basic areas of technological
activity. Both society and businesses have benefited from the
new transpiration methods.

 Transportation provides mobility for people and goods.

3.Technology has improved communication
 People use technology to communicate with each other.
Electronic media like radios, televisions, internet, social
media have improved the way we exchange ideas which can
develop our societies.

4.Technology has improved education and learning

process
 Technologies like smart whiteboards, computers, mobile
phones, iPads, projectors, and internet are being used in
classrooms to boost students moral to learn.
 Visual education is becoming more popular and it has
proved to be the best method of learning in many subjects
like mathematics, physics, biology, geography, economics
and much more.

Negative Impacts Of Technology On Society

 Resource Depletion
 Increased Pollution
Technologies inevitably involve trade offs between
costs and benefits.

Decisions about the use of products and systems

can result in intended and unintended consequences