The document discusses several disadvantages of information technology: 1) It can lead to unemployment as jobs are automated or outsourced. 2) Privacy is threatened as personal information can be hacked or intercepted. 3) There is a lack of job security as skills become quickly outdated due to changing technology.

1. Disadvantages
of information
technology
Submitted by
Muntaquir
IMED PUNE

2.  Unemployment -
While information technology may have
streamlined the business process it has also crated job
redundancies, downsizing and outsourcing. This means that a
lot of lower and middle level jobs have been done away with
causing more people to become unemployed
 Privacy -
Though information technology may
have made communication quicker, easier and more convenient,
it has also bought along privacy issues. From cell phone signal
interceptions to email hacking, people are now worried about
their once private information becoming public knowledge.
 Lack of job security -
Industry experts believe that the
internet has made job security a big issue as since technology
keeps on changing with each day. This means that one has to be
in a constant learning mode, if he or she wishes for their job to
be secure.

3. Dominant culture -
While information
technology may have made the world a global
village, it has also contributed to one culture
dominating another weaker one.
For example it is now argued that US
influences how most young teenagers all over the
world now act, dress and behave. Languages too
have become overshadowed, with English becoming
the primary mode of communication for business and
everything else.

4.  Technology makes life more complex.
 Sweatshops and harsher forms of slavery are more
likely to be found in technologically advanced
societies, relative to primitive societies.
 The increasing oppression of technologically advanced
societies over those which are not.
 More people are starving (in total numbers and per-
capita), in this most technologically advanced age, than
at any other point in history or primitive pre-history.

5.  Potentially devastating nuclear weapons become more
powerful and proliferation is made evermore easy with
communication and transportation advancements.
 This leads to socially stressful military concepts like
mutually assured destruction. The duck and cover drills
accompany other lifestyle aspects of an advanced
technological society.
 New forms of entertainment, such as video games and
internet access could have possible social effects on areas
such as academic performance.

6.  computer virus and bug
 privacy and stolen copy right
 make part of people over concentrate on computering, then
lost of friendly and face to face communication chance. Bad
for eye watching if over look for long time
 no physical stock, easy buy fake product and cheating by
people
 people will lose their jobs to machines that will do the work
for them
 machines and robots are too complex for most people to us

7.  The increase in transportation technology has
brought stressful traffic congestion in some areas.
 Creates new diseases and disorders such as
obesity, laziness and a loss of personality
 New forms of danger existing as a consequence of
innovative forms of technology, new types of
nuclear reactors, unforeseen genetic mutations as
the result of genetic engineering, or perhaps
something more subtle which can destroy the
ozone or warm the planet.

8.  it is crucial that personal and confidential records stored in
computers be protected properly.
 Impact on Labour Force, although computers have improved
productivity and created an entire industry with hundreds of
thousands of new jobs, the skills of hundreds of thousands
employees are replaced by computers
 Health Risks, prolonged or improper computer use can lead
to head injuries or disorders.
 Computer users can protect themselves from health risks
through proper workplace design, good posture while at the
computer, and appropriately spaced work breaks.
 Impact on the Environment, Computer manufacturing
processes and computer waste are depleting natural resources
and polluting the environment.

9.  Theft of Personal information
If you use the Internet, you may be
facing grave danger as your personal information such as
name, address, credit card number etc. can be accessed by
other culprits to make your problems worse.
 Spamming:
Spamming refers to sending unwanted e-mails in bulk, which
provide no purpose and needlessly obstruct the entire system.
Such illegal activities can be very frustrating for you, and so
instead of just ignoring it, you should make an effort to try
and stop these activities so that using the Internet can become
that much safer.

10.  Virus threat
Virus is nothing but a program which
disrupts the normal functioning of your computer
systems. Computers attached to internet are more prone
to virus attacks and they can end up into crashing your
whole hard disk, causing you considerable headache.
Pornography:
This is perhaps the biggest threat
related to your children’s healthy mental life. A very
serious issue concerning the Internet. There are
thousands of pornographic sites on the Internet that can
be easily found and can be a detrimental factor to
letting children use the Internet.

11.  More rapid communication with a form of
communication to change the original form of face
to face to be not. This can cause communication to
be empty.
 Someone who constantly hang out with the
computer will tend to be someone who is
individualistic.