Impact Of Technology On Society

PROJECT PROPOSAL-TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE SOCIETY

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE 4

1.1 ABSTRACT 4

1.2 BACKGROUND 4

1.3 PROBLEM STATEMENT 7

1.4 Main Research objective 8

1.4.1 Research objectives 8

1.4.2 Research Questions 8

1.5 Significance of the Study 9

CHAPTER TWO 10

LITERATURE REVIEW 10

2.1 Key Applications of technology 11

2.1.1 Communication 11

2.1.2 Health 13

2.2 Positive impacts of Technology 15

2.2.1 Technology Has Improved Transportation 15

2.2.2 Technology Has Improved Communication 16

2.2.3 Technology Has Improved Education and Learning Process 16

2.3 Negative Impacts 17

2.3.1 Increased Pollution 17

2.3.2 Teenagers and Technology: Negative Effects 17

2.4 Variables 21

2.5 Hypothesis 21

PROJECT TIMELINE 21

PROJECT

The overall effect of technology is that it brings the world together and makes work and life easier. There are some drawbacks to the use of technology as already seen in various accidents. The invention of air travel was greatly seen as landmark shift from the way making moved from place to place. We all appreciate the major achievements made in this field mainly on speed and efficiency. Today, a person can move from one continent to another within hours due to air travel. It is possible to move heavy cargo through plane between distant countries. This has made business easy and fast opening up the world to a large field of commerce. However, every bit of technology has been seen to have positive and negative sides (Aubusson et al., 2014). For ample, in air travel, numerous accidents have occurred leading to loss of life and property. The question thus remains, where does the world draw a line on the application or use of technology to ensure safety and pure

Even with the great appetite for the technology, there is great caution on the use of the modern gadgets as they have some serious effects on a person (Khosravi, Rezvani & Wiewiora, 2016). Technology provides people with a simpler and faster way of doing things but also demands caution when being used. It is hard to balance or not cross the line in the application of technology. Businesses are forced to adopt new technology so as to remain on the competitive edge in the global market. No matter how bad technology may be termed in some instances, people have little options but to go with the tide (Aubusson et al., 2014). The global projections state that in the next few decades, 90% of all small-scale tasks mainly at hoe will be handled through technology. This implies that if the same technology has negative effects on a person, the impacts are likely to increase with the increase of use of technology. More actions are being taken to ensure that the use technology is balanced and leaves little or minimal effects on a person. The global call for a moderate use of technology is helping to raise awareness of the impacts of technology. One of the most common impacts of technology is on children. Today, parents are being encouraged to reduce the exposure of children on phones as it tends to deny them the adequate play time (Kim et al., 2013). Online learning is another example of the effects of