This document contains information about the positive and negative impacts of computers. It discusses how computers have positively impacted learning, social behavior, personal and professional lives, and society by providing access to information, opportunities for communication and social networking, and automation of tasks. However, it also notes some negative impacts such as physical health issues from overuse, addiction potential, reduced social interaction, and data security risks. It concludes with examples of how computers are applied in fields like desktop publishing, marketing, project management, healthcare, manufacturing, research, robotics, communications, sports, and banking.
3. Introduction
Computers have impacted the wave on a large scale. We
will find computers in hospitals, libraries, schools and
banks. A computer technology advances, the effects will
continue to change the world for better.
Unfortunately, using computers
can also bring many negative
effects for your overall health.
4. Positive impacts
1. Positive effects on learning :-
Internet
contains online dictionaries, encyclopedias, a wide
variety of games and software's, education. Many online
videos teach skills such as
learning a language.
5. 2. Social Behavior :-
computers offers many opportunities to meet
new people.
There are many social networking sites that let people
connect with others people can communicate in a variety of
ways, date people and reconnect with old friends and
classmates. The internet can help people find others with
common interests, form bonds
with strangers and
expand their social
network.
6. 3. Personal Life :-
Genealogy
Reconnecting with friends
Easier/Faster communication
Catalog pictures
Games
Access to information
7. 4. Professional life :-
• Training online
• Job work faster
• More affiant
• easier access to information
• Meeting at a company are reduced
• Manage payroll, accounts
receivable, taxes
• Control inventory
8. 5. Academic Life :-
• Distance learner
• Can study day & night
• More resources
• Video conferences
• Access to your courses
9. 6.Society :-
Computer completes many task easily and
quickly.
It save time and efforts.
Many companies use computer for keep
record & maintain data.
Banks use computer for maintain accounts
and manage financial transactions and
provide online transaction , credit card &
debit card we use for online shopping &
paying bills.
Moreover computer use in every field of life
such as education, medical, business,
industry, airline & weather forecasting etc.
11. Overall Positive Impacts :-
• Reducing cost/number of
staff needed.
• Reducing amount of
hardware (printers) due to
LAN networking.
• Fun – games, internet,
music, graphics.
• Communication. More way
to interact globally.
• Education – access to info for
research.
12. NEGATIVE IMPACTS :
1. Physical Health :-
Short Term eye problems: Burning, itching &
tearing.
Eyestrain & eye soreness especially for the video
display users.
Employees had heavy workloads are prone to
psychological distress like anxiety, irritability &
fatigue.
People who have used the computers for an
extensive period of time may complain about
headaches & pains in their wrists, arms & necks.
14. 2. Children & Exposure to Adult
material :-
More
people, especially children & teenagers, are
vulnerable to finding highly explicit adult
material. Pornography is easily accessible to
children, & this can affect attitude toward sex as
they mature. They may have trouble dealing with
intimacy & develop a surreal perception of sexual
encounters.
children who use the internet also
are at risk of learning about different
type of drugs & how they alter
sensations or how crimes are
committed.
15. 3. Exposure to Radiation :-
Many computers have CRT,
or cathode Ray Tube, monitors that give off X-
ray radiation that can affect your health. Being
exposed to computer radiation can cause cancer,
tumor, miscarriage & birth defects, headaches
and insomnia. The FDA requires
that a computer & TV monitors
meet a radiation limit. However
they still give off a small amount
of radiation.
16. 4. Addiction :-
• Neglect of family and friends.
• Feeling empty, depressed, irritable when
don’t have computer near you.
• Problem with school or job.
• Sleep disturbances/ change in sleep
pattern.
• Children addicted to computer games.
18. 5. Personal Life :-
Spend more time on the computer
than with your family.
Addiction – less interaction with
people.
Faster communication may not be
better communication.
Identity theft.
19. 6. Professional Life :-
Working from home limits your
interaction with colleagues.
Negative affects computers have
your academic life.
Less interaction with classmates.
21. 7. Society :-
Different task are performed automatically by use
of computers. It reduce the people need &
increase the unemployment in society.
Wastage of time.
The unauthorized person can access
the data through the network. It has create serious
problems to data security.
Many people computer use for negative purpose.
They hack the credit card numbers of the
people and use them for shopping.
23. Overall Negative Impacts :-
• Sitting behind a computer all day in hard on the eyes.
• Computers can distract a person so much they lose contact
with the reality around them such as taking time with
family, husbands, boyfriends, wives & children.
• More crime is committed through the internet.
• More misinformation by SOME people on the internet can
cause problems for the younger generation.
• Hackers can ruin your computer system.
• Hackers, ID fraud & spoof websites.
• Viruses, spam & Trojans.
• Online gamblig.
24. Applications of Computer Desktop Publishing
Marketing
Project Management
Medicine and Healthcare
Design and Manufacturing
Art and research
Robotics
Communication
Sports
Banking
25. 1. Desktop Publishing :-
Creation of documents using page
layout skills on personal computer.
Desktop publishing software can
generate layout and produce
typographic quality text and
images comparable to traditional
typographic and printing.
27. 2. Marketing:-
Widely used in home shopping.
Advertisement, the purpose of
advertising is to improve sales
revenues without an equivalent
increase in cost.
Telemarketing, it involves the ways
to reach previously untapped
markets. You may have
computerized sales calls on phone.
29. 3. Project Management:-
It is used on computers to plan,
schedule, track, analyze, control
manpower, material and other
resources for complex and variety
of projects related to various
professions.
Examples are:-Purchase order
generation, payroll processing,
resource planning, resource
allocation, computer added
design.
35. 6. Art and Research:-
Computer graphics methods are
widely used in fine arts and
commercial arts.
Research work requires complex
computations. Computers have
made this job very faster and
simple.
37. 7. Robotics :-
Missile design and control.
Military communication.
Military planning.
Smart Weapons.
38. 8. Communications :-
Computes are extensively used in
sending and receiving
information's.
It is being used to send and receive
electronic mails, engage in online
conferencing to view and post
news on computer bulletin boards.
39. 9. Sports :-
Virtual training.
Plan strategies.
Ticketing and reservations.
Manage scoreboards.
