The advantage Internet computer
Computers may be a hindrance or be a wonderful helper but it is up to the person who uses them in their life. Especially the Internet is becoming more and more important for nearly everybody as it is one of the newest and most forward-looking media and it is very difficult to differ between the advantage and disadvantage aspects of internet.
In the last two decades the internet have experienced a major breakthrough. These days it is common to find powerful PCs in the home bought for educational or recreational use. When the original PC was released by IBM in 1981 only businesses could afford them. It is odd to think that the computer in your home is many times more powerful than the on-board computers used to land the Apollo on the moon. They are just machines which do anything we command or input without hesitation, whether these commands are good or not. So, anyone who believes that computers make problems in our modern life only speaks part of the truth because in fact computers are great advantage helpers of human beings.
Therefore we thought that it would be necessary to think about some advantage and disadvanteg aspects of how this medium influences us, what impacts it has on our social behaviour and what the future will look.
There are many advantages of the Internet that show you the importance of this new medium. What I want to say is that Internet changed our life in a positive way.
Internet is much cheaper than the real life
The internet is a database full of information and offers us a lot of services, sometimes for free. This makes our life easier and sometimes also cheaper.As we all know, software costs a lot, if you buy it legal. Free software, free music is available on the Internet. You just have to download the program, the mp3-file or whatever and that’s it. Why do you want to pay more as you need to? Special websites are created just to give you the newest programs, or to tell you where you can get it from. Another free service of the internet is sending SMS. You can save a lot of money if you do not send it with your mobile phone especially from Austria to America. You also have the opportunity to register as a user. Then you can use more things, e.g. sending E-postcards, I-messages (messages between registered users), and lead an address book. From my point of view the e-mail has replaced the traditional letter. You do not have to buy stamps anymore and it is much faster and also for free. You can also add files to your E-mail and that’s why a big data transfer is possible.
In any case, everybody’s private situation is different. For many women their own children are the main reason for staying at home. Nowadays this won’t be a problem any more, you can do work on your computer at home, called tele-working. Also men take this opportunity to work at home. What are the consequences, the advantages of tele-working? Sure, if you have a family, you can spend more time at home, probably you can spend more time with your children. Next is, that you can organize every day in the way you want to. Meetings at the company are reduced to a minimum. Internet-Tele-working is also an advantage for the owner of the company. Official studies substantiate that people who work at home are more motivated than their colleagues at the office. What will happen, if you are ill and cannot leave the house? No problem! You can do everything on the internet without leaving the house. You can do the shopping, meet friends and so on. The only problem is the way of paying. It is very easy, you only have to type in your credit card-number and the goods will be paid.
Additionally, another big advantage of the internet is the easy access to information. Online reference books and dictionaries replace the way to the bookshop or to the library. It is again cheaper to search for information in the internet than to buy a book, that is old after one year. In the internet a lot of information is renewed and up to date. You can also find information which is very new and a book does not exist yet.
Moreover you can read the daily newspapers from all over the world, sometimes for free. You do not have to buy them anymore. In addition, most newspaper sites have an archive in which you can search for old articles.
The internet is also a big “advertising company”. A lot of enterprises have a homepage with ads and support opportunities. On some of them you can order products online. Then you do not have to go to the city anymore. You avoid waiting in front of the cash because of a long queue. Moreover, you can get the newest stock exchange courses because the stock exchange in the Internet is always the most current one. You also have the ability to tell the computer to buy shares when the course is down. Furthermore you can hold videoconferences which means that e.g. your teacher is sitting in his office in America and teaching you in Austria. This is very important in the medical sector because doctors from all over the world can join an operation. So specialists can give tips and help other doctors to complete the operation successfully. The patient has not to wait until a specialist will come from America.
By Internet the specialists can give tips and help other doctors to complete the operation successfully
The next advantage I want to mention is the faster development. Many universities and research institutions are also linked. They are able to exchange experiences, novelties and often they start new projects together. If they are linked in internet, they can save time and money.
Advantage Internet impact our daily life-conclusion
It is a strong positive argument that internet does not care about time or distance. Everyone can be online every time and communicate with everyone everywhere. The Internet changed our life enormously, there is no doubt about that.
Our lives are already getting influenced by Internet technology . There is a big influence of technique on our daily life-and this is just the beginning. There are good and bad things about every service of the internet. Information is difficult to divide Internet into advantage or disadvantage impact to daily life. On next post i will show the other side impact of Internet.
