IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY IN HUMAN AND SOCIETY

What is society?
A society is a group of people that lives together in a
community that includes some form of government, along
with some rules and economy.
What is technology?
Technology means the use of scientific knowledge to
achieve some specific goal or create applications that are
used in industry or in everyday life. So, if we are using some
scientific knowledge to achieve some goal means we are
using technology

In the past few decades, technology grows rapidly. And the use of
technology also increased drastically. It affects the life of people
and changes the way of their learning, thinking, and
communication. It plays a major role in society, and now it is very
tough to imagine the life without technology. Both technology and
society are co-related, co-dependent, co-influence with each
other. Technology lays an impact on society, including the
potential for society to progress or decline, in both good and bad
manner. Our society is shaped by technology, which has both
beneficial and harmful consequences. Human societies and
technology have grown inextricably linked since technical systems
like mobile phones, computers, TV, etc. are produced by humans
and reflect the very basis of a population’s needs and lifestyle.
Although technology improves the lifestyle of human being, it is
also a major concern for the future generations. Nowadays,
people are excessively using technology which reduce their
physical activities that directly affects their health. Also, due to the
excessive use of technology there are so many cybercrimes
happens every day in which someone steals the identity or
personal information of the victim, and uses it to conduct a crime
or perpetrate fraud without our permission. Some other cyber
crimes are:

• Hacking: An effort to manipulate a computer system

or a network within a computer is known as hacking. It
is unauthorized control of computer systems with the
intention of committing a crime.
• Credit/Debit Card theft: Credit card fraud refers to
any type of fraud involving a payment card, such as a
credit or debit card. The objective could be to obtain
products or services, or to transfer the funds to a
criminal-controlled account.
• Malware installation: Any program or file that is
dangerous to a computer user is known as malware.
-Virus – a malicious program designed to replicate
itself and transfer from one computer to another either
through internet and local networks or data storage
like flash drives.
- Trojan – a malicious program that is disguised as
useful program but once downloaded or installed,
leaves your PC unprotected and allows hackers to get
your information.
 - Rouge Security Software – tricks the user into
posing that it is a security software. It asks the user to
pay to improve his/her security but not protected at
all.
- Spyware – a program that runs in the background
without you knowing it. It has the ability to monitor
what you are doing and typing through keylogging.
* keyloggers- used to record the keystroke done by
the users. This is done to steal their password or any
other sensitive information.
- Adware – a program designed to send you
advertisements, mostly as pop-ups.
• E-mail threat: The use of email to deceive another
person for personal benefit or to harm another
person.
• Phishing: its goal is to acquire sensitive personal
information like passwords and credit card details.
• Spams: An undesired, uninvited digital message that
is sent in large quantities is known as spam. You can
get spam via email, phone calls, text messages etc.
• ATM cards theft: ATM fraud refers to a crime in
which the criminal makes the payments for the
criminal activities via some other person’s ATM card
using the PIN.
Impact of Technology on Society
We utilize and rely on technology in our daily lives, and our
technical requirements and demands continue to grow.
Technology is used by humans to explore, connect, study,
and do work. The manner in which we use technology
decides whether its effects are beneficial or detrimental for
society.
1. Positive Impacts of technology on society:
Technology has a more positive impact on humans or
society as compared to negative. It makes our life easier
and reward us by providing resources or tool that make our
life much easier. Following are some positive changes that
technology brings to our life:
• Improved Communication: Communication is the
most important part of society, we build or transfer our
thoughts with each other with the help of
communication. Earlier people used pigeons or birds to
transfer their messages to their loved ones. After that
technology slowly grows and the medium of
transferring information is changed to mobile phones,
email, etc. Nowadays, we send messages to loved
ones or known people via email, social media
platforms, etc. It is the fastest, efficient, and effective
medium. People can talk or share information with their
loved ones easily even if they are very far away from
them.
• Improved Education and learning process:
Technology enhances the education and learning
process. Nowadays, people can easily enhance their
knowledge using the internet. Most of the data is
present on the internet is free of cost, and you can
access this data anytime and anywhere.
 • Mechanized Agriculture: Technology changes the
working mechanism of farmers. Lots of machines and
technical instruments were introduced in the
agricultural area which makes farming very easy,
effective, automated, etc.
• Easy to access information: We can easily access
information via the internet anytime and anywhere.
Most of the information is present on the internet are
free of cost, so you can use them to enhance your
knowledge, skills, etc.
2. Negative Impacts of technology on society:
As we know that everything present on this planet has both
advantages and disadvantages. The same goes for
technology it also has negative impacts on society and
some other negative impacts are:
• Increase in unemployment: Nowadays, large and
small business uses machinery and technical
equipment because of their low costing and high
efficiency due to which the rate of unemployment is
increasing continuously.
• Increase in pollution: Not only humans but
technology also affecting our environment. Due to
vehicles and machinery, the rate of pollution is
increasing continuously which causes global warming,
etc.
• Increase in health and mental concerns: Nowadays,
technology effecting the physical as well as mental
health of human beings. It makes people lazy,
emotionally weak, sleeping problems, reduce physical
 activity, also people are spending less time with their
family and friends.
• Increase in cybercrimes: Due to the excessive use of
the internet, the rate of cybercrimes are also increased.
Some people (attackers) harm innocent people
(victims) or children for money or fun.
Technology induced societal issues and cultural
changes
Social Issues:
Following are some social issues that we face while using
the internet:
• Identity Theft: To use the identity of some other
person by getting his financial/ personal information in
a fraud manner in order to commit a crime.
• Gaming Addiction: An individual’s capacity to perform
in multiple life domains is severely affected as a result
of the excessive use of internet games over a long
period of time.
• Health and Fitness: Using a lot of the internet lay an
impact on health and fitness, it may impact your
eyesight, backbone, etc.
• Cyberbullying: The use of technology to bully, abuse,
criticize, or target another person is known as
cyberbullying.
• Terrorism and Crime: Theft of our cyber-
infrastructure, as well as digital information such as
software, hardware, data, or information, is considered
cyberterrorism.
 • Communication Breakdown: A communication
breakdown occurs when information is not exchanged,
resulting in a loss of interaction.
• Defamation of Character: The act of transmitting a
piece of false information in order to do serious harm
to another person’s goodwill is known as defamation of
character.
Cultural changes:
Our culture has been radically transformed by technology.
From our ideals to our modes of communication, we’ve
come a long way. Many people now find it difficult to
conduct a face-to-face chat. People use their phones,
tablets, or computers to spend time with their buddies. Also,
individuals now evaluate others based on how
technologically, whether or not they own the latest mobile
phones or cars. Nowadays, listening to music on
headphones is preferred over listening to another person.
Most individuals nowadays prefer the internet because that
is all they have ever known. Cell phones with touch screens
are all the rage these days. Technology just serves to
separate people from actuality. People nowadays lack the
ability to interact in real-life situations such as individual
connections, problem-solving, and showing adult actions.
All this is influencing our culture. Technology influences
culture every time we may get anything from an internet
seller rather than going to a local business. Every moment
someone always sits down to watch our night on-demand
enjoyment, we are shaping culture through technology.