Wednesday 23 January 2013

How has the development of information technology influenced the common traditions of a society?

Nowadays, technology becomes one of the vital needs in the lives of human across the globe. These technologies show up  many forms such as personal computers, smart phones, the internet, web and mobile phone applications, digital assistants, and cloud computing. In fact the list is growing constantly and new forms of these technologies are working their way into every aspect of daily life. ICTs have put our world finally in our own hands. But in somehow, we can say that these technologies are the major propellants of the developing global culture. The common traditions of a society were totally influenced in various kinds of situations by the development of information technology. People become very depend on the technology in everywhere and their tradition values or own abilities were replaced by the increasing of technologies. For examples, the ways of thinking style, the education system, their daily activities, and moreover, we can say that technology shape every aspect of our lives. Even social attitudes have changed with the effect that citizens of a society now expect the various elements of that society to be better informed than previously. They also expect to be able to access more information about a specific product, service or organization so that they can make informed decisions with regard to their interactions with that entity. As everything has its good or bad sides, therefore the development of information technology also has both sides. The technology is developing day by day to help the people lives by making the works easier and there is only one thing that we have to maintain some of our important traditions in our society not to be replaced by new developments.

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