The Impact of ICT on society.

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The Impact of ICT on society.

Introduction

I will be looking in detail at all aspects and results of ICT on society on a whole. By doing this I hope to look in detail at the benefits and misgivings on what seems to have been a global change which has an impact as large as that since the birth of the telephone by Alexander Graham bell.

        Undoubtedly communications technology has revolutionized extremely fast in the past years, it has grown from a phone which resembled the old house hold brick to devises which can be the small the household computer mouse. They also contain technology which enable you to send graphics even video in real time to others, and have change from the old dot matrix screen to and a black LCD screen to the High resolution colour screen which people use today.

Although this has been greatly enhanced by the highly lucrative and growing market

of mobile phone, there is continual pressure by Civil Rights Groups complaining that the government has technology to create a supposed “big brother society” and have also complained about conversations been supposedly snatched from the air and taped by any government services which may want to do this. The currently law as it stands enable the government to tale any conversation from, the air if they deem it to be a threat to national security. This requires backing from either

  • The home office
  • The foreign office
  • Her majesty’ s Secret Security Services
  • MI6
  • MI5
  • Special Branch
  • Technical Support Unit

However all these require a signature form the home secretary David Blunket or relative counterpart.

The use of technology has undoubtedly changed the world of communication and the ability to receive send information regarding just about everything. With such a broad scope it was inevitable that people would eventually exploit or attempt to undermine it from hackers to prank callers or from thief’s to crackers. From Courts to Homes, ICT has had an overwhelming impact of society as a whole.

Crime in relevance to mobile phones is not just restricted to violet theft regarding them; there are also situations where organized crime is or castrated using mobile phones. There are also situations where nuisance calls are used by mobile phones and thus are causing companies to loose business because they simply can’t get their customers through to their phone lines. Also due to restrictions in the technology of the police they do not have the power to trace mobile phones to their users of these prank calls if they are not registered.

        Also there are fears of mobile phones technology creating a “big brother society”, with the Army, Navy, and Air Force and National Security Services being able to track the signals form ANY mobile phone with in 5 meters. Such tracking does not require a Signature from any minister and can be done on the accord of any agent of these services. For further details visit ,  .

        Not just this but there are increasing controversy with the supposed “brain frying” effect of mobile phones and their radio active particles on the brain. There have been increasing press attention to the excessive use of mobile phones leading to traumas of the brain. Although no mobile phone company will submit to a public and impartial inquiry, probably due to fears it may be detrimental to their financial stability of that company.

 Communication

The use of mobile phones is growing ever more quickly, with the target audience youngsters more and more phones are being purchased and more and more connections are being made. If used correctly mobile phones can be very useful as modern technology and in the short run are very useful. However a recent paper that was published proves mobile phones are very bad for our health. They emit just the level right level of radiation that can decay our brain cells. If used a lot mobile phones could cause major problems for people’s health in years to come. Another recent thing is the Internet and with the wide growing use of the net, faster connections to it have been made available for public. How fast your connection varies not only from how much you pay but were you live. Here in Britain a 556k connection is about twenty-five pounds a month. In China a 13gig (13,000,000k) connection works out at about the equivalent of three pounds a month! The internet offers chat rooms, email and programs such as MSN Messenger that allow people to communicate all over the world. A problem with chat rooms is any random person could join the room and these allot of these people cannot be trusted! They could be anyone, anywhere as it is very easy to lie. A recent research study shows that Spam mail (junk mail) costs British companies a total of three billion of pounds in business and thousands of hours in labor. It also says that people receive more Spam emails than real emails. This is due to a supposedly 50 spammers from the United States of America that sent 90%

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Anybody can access information from across the world. Names, places and people can and have been found using the World Wide Web (WWW) and using various CD-ROMS. Although the WWW offers a wealth of information it also contains allot of very inappropriate material such as pornography. This has a habit of accidentally popping up and being advertised all over the net. Parents are sometimes afraid of letting their young children onto the net because of this. This is one of the main problems as pornography is the most accessed material on the Internet. CD-ROMs have their downsides, they can ...

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