Study Guide No. 9 Flashcards
Characteristics of Technology
Dynamic
Reach
Self-Sustaining
Relates to the application of knowledge, including the processes and applications to solve problems, perform tasks, and create new methods to obtain desired outcomes. Our new economy is based on the dynamic technological changes in our society.
Technology
Relate to the constant change that often challenges the structure of social institutions.
Some societies have difficulty adjusting to this change to the point that they even attempt to legislate against new technology to isolate themselves.
Dynamic
For example, China’s “cybercop” – reminding Chinese citizens and
monitoring their behavior when they are using the internet. Twitter, Instagram and Facebook changed the way how people communicate and socialize to other people.
Dynamic
relates to the broad nature of technology as it moves thru society. In both developed and developing countries are affected by cellular and wireless telephones.
Web conferencing and video conferencing are becoming popular alternatives, although it may be difficult for technology to fully replace the face-to-face encounters.
Reach
Relates to the fact that technology acts as a catalyst to spur even faster development. As new innovations are introduced, they stimulate the need for more technology to facilitate further development.
Self-Sustaining
Investment in research and development are among the highest return investments a nation can make. Technological innovation has been responsible for half or more of the nation’s growth in production.
Influence in the Economy
Involving companies buying from and selling to each other online is the fastest growing segment of e- commerce.
Business to business (B2B) e-commerce
Provides the ability to communicate between two or more entities over distances without the use of wires or cables of any sort.
Wireless technology
Can occur when certain groups have limited access to the latest technology, especially high speed internet service at home and therefore derive fewer benefits from it.
Digital divide
Information and telecommunications technology minimizes the borders between countries, businesses, and people and allows people to overcome the physical limitations of time and space. Technological advances also enable people to acquire customized goods and services that cost less and are of higher quality than ever imagine.
Influence in the Society
Is a global information system that links computer networks together and it changed the way people communicate, learn, do business and find entertainment.
Internet
In 1991, User friendly interface to world wide web was established.
The term “Surfing the internet” was coined in 1992.
In 1995, eBay was launched to enable internet users to trade with each other.
Google arrives in 1998. It pioneers a ranking system that uses links to assess a website’s popularity. Google’s simple design is soothing while existing search engines cram their pages with animated adverts.
Social Networking began in 2004 at Harvard University where Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, which now has over 200 million users. Twitter transformed social networking. Unlike lengthy blog posts, Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters.
It was in 2008 when mobile internet took off. These are just some of the significant dates in the development of the internet.
With the onset of technology, people now have access to transact to other people with the use of the internet. It gives the internet access to personal information of the consumers.
Issues like “cookies” or identifying a string of text allow the website operator to track down often the visits the site, what he or she looks at while there and in what sequence.
Privacy
A law that seeks to protect all forms of information, be it private, personal, or sensitive.
Republic Act No. 10173, otherwise known as the Data Privacy Act
