Advantages of Technology

1. Greatly Increased production

Technology is one of the critical factors that greatly enhanced the production of goods and materials.
While human efforts have a limit, the machines perform thousands or even more times better than
them. They do the job within minimal time but with maximum accuracy and efficiency. To have an
example, think about the production of clothes. If everything were done by human hands, it would have
taken days to produce a single set of wearable. But, technology made this, thousands per day from a
single place where just a single machine works.

2. Technology Helps business to improve their services

Think if none of these computers or customer care related operations are not functional. The companies
can’t improve their service and optimize it according to the needs of the customers. Now, once we
bought something from the electronic shop, we have nothing to worry about until the end of the
warranty period. We just have to make a phone call in order to get it fixed upon any problems. This is
just a single example, it has a huge impact on various fields of the business to improve their productivity.

3. Saves time

Time efficiency is one of the best advantages of technology. Everything nowadays is at least a little
automated. Computer-based businesses are a great example of the time efficiency of technology. For
example, if you wanted to order something from your vendor, you don’t have to pick your car and reach
there, you just have to click a button or make a phone call; the product will reach you in a matter of
hours.

4. Technology accelerates Everything

As mentioned in our previous article, technology is something that boosts production, or in other words,
it can accelerate almost any physical operations. It opens a wide possibility for innovation to explore
new and new dimensions. Technology creates new technologies.

5. Enhanced communication

It was never easier to communicate in the last century. But now, there is a lot of communication
mediums such as the internet, fax, phone, etc. useful both for individuals and businesses. No far how
you are, the communication is incredibly comfortable utilizing modern technology. Skype, Whatsapp,
Facebook Messenger are all examples of communication service providers.

6. Safer storage
It was extremely difficult to keep all those files and stacks in offices safe from disasters. But today, even
a room full of papers can be put in a single flash drive. It not only made your files safer and secure but
also freed a lot of space on your desk.

7. Technology helps to learn

Technology can boost the ability of people especially students to explore the wide world of knowledge.
No matter how aged you are, if you have an internet connection and a device to connect to it, you have
a whole world to learn. In addition, numerous famous universities and schools conduct online
classrooms and projects participating students all over the world. This helps for a better connection and
group learning.

8. Helps to engage Students

Nowadays, students always tend to learn from the internet more than from traditional textbooks. By
integrating the technology with the educational system, teachers and parents can greatly engage
students in their studies. They will always love to see live video presentations more than hearing a
boring history class. Not only for the students, but any people can be put together with the help of
technology in the educational system.

9. It makes people more capable

It is not hidden that the world is slowly stepping into an entirely computer-controlled world. So, it is very
essential to have at least a basic idea about technology and gadgets to be productive in the future. So,
the existing technology can prepare the current generation for future technology.

10. Technology Helps people with disabilities

The education of individuals with disabilities was always challenging. But nowadays with the help of
numerous futurist inventions like text messaging in classrooms, advanced touch recognition, they are
also enjoying the beautiful world of education. Like this, people with leg problems can easily travel with
their self-controlled wheelchairs, deaf people can hear using tech gadgets, blind people can easily
navigate using smart wearables, and the use of technology for people with disabilities is almost limitless.

11. Technology simplifies teacher’s work

As already mentioned, nowadays kids are extremely close to tech gadgets than textbooks. So, utilizing
the same, teachers can easily communicate with them without a teacher-student gap. They can conduct
online whiteboards, prepare presentations in the classroom, collect information from Wikipedia or other
online sources. So, technology can positively affect the teaching system.
 12. Made life easier by all means

It wasn’t that easy to travel 100 KM in the last century as it is now. It wasn’t possible to step on the
moon before centuries. It wasn’t even thinkable to send messages over the air before few decades. So,
by all means, technology had made human life easier like never before.

13. Healthcare and Medicine

Technology has greatly impacted the healthcare sector and the production of medicines. Without
technology, we would be way behind from where we are standing now. It made almost everything
related to the hospitals, ambulance, emergency healthcare, medical stores, medical gadgets, etc. the
best they can be.

Disadvantages of Technology

1. Technology is not 100% safe

The inability to provide 100% safety is a disadvantage of technology in society. While the physical files
and stacks of papers turned into just some 1’s and 0’s inside the chip, all gone incredibly easy to manage
and transfer. At the same time, it became comparatively easier to steal them also. Hackers and
Spammers are always trying to steal sensitive information from everyone’s devices as well as from big
companies. We’ve already heard a countless number of cyber attacks, so it is not hidden that technology
is insecure.

2. We are not always connected

Can anyone tell we will be always connected over the phone or on the internet? No. Even a small rain or
thunder can distract our communication. But Yes, there are some technologies which are not often
disturbed. But they too will get disconnected at some point.

3. Affected social life

The impact of technology in social life is not that neglectable. It had both advantages and disadvantages
in our social life. Technology virtually connected people from distant locations through social media and
disconnected them from the family and neighbors.

4. Distraction in the classroom

Technology has a lot of advantages in the educational system. But one of the most irritating
disadvantages is the ability of the students to make them useful for the non-educational purpose. With
modern smartphones, they can play games and surf their favorite social media platforms such as
Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, etc. in classrooms. If they use technology for entertainment
purposes in the classroom, it won’t do any good. But, it can be controlled by setting specific limitations
to their devices or by providing customized devices from the school.

5. Technology is expensive

While talking about the advantages and disadvantages of technology in education, it is a must to discuss
the cost-effectiveness of modern tech gadgets. Even there are a lot of iPads and Laptops on the market;
the bitter truth is that most of them are not affordable for normal or middle-class people. Like that,
expensive tech stuff is also intangible to the basic schools. This leads to inequality in the educational
system while the wealthy schools with higher funds have smart classrooms with a lot of tech gadgets. It
is nevertheless to say that it also affects non-educational sectors.

6. Needs additional Training

It is a fact that there are still people who need training in order to make use of the tech stuff. Especially
when it comes to the educational system, students and teachers have to take additional training in order
to keep with the latest technology. This results in the difficulty of adaptation of the high-tech
educational system.

7. Affected the nature

This is one of the worst disadvantages of technology in human life. The factories and modern devices
polluted all of the water, soil, and air to a great extent. Even the factories produce useful stuff to the
human; it hurts the earth and its eco-system to a great extent.

8. Used for bad things

A lot of technological advancements are being used for bad things. As most people have access to
information about the latest technologies and how they can make use of them, it also opens a way for
bad people to use them. In the wrong hands, technology can be bad.