Technological World
Introduction
These days, it is undoubtful that technology has a lot of influence in everyday life. One often uses smartphones, laptops and other digital devices to proceed with the information, check for facts and satisfy a quick access to Internet resources. With the significant proliferation of technological advancements, one often faces the impact of the digital era in many spheres of one’s life. In other words, technology preoccupies the majority of private and public spaces by leaving a lot of food for thought regarding the traditional perception of one’s usual time-spending. Therefore, these dimension of the technological influence shall be analyzed closely, so that one could know what are the effective ways for tackling the issues related to the technology in a long-term.
Technology and Education
The use of technology in the dimension of education is one of the most prominent examples where one shall expect the changes in the nearest future. In some of the well-developed countries, the debates regarding the future of education commence to arise as more and more teachers and students have to face the fact of technological presence in an educational institution. In this regard, several aspects shall be remarked in regards to the use of technology.
One of the primary aspects of has to face is the awareness of the potential gap in educational access, differentiated not only by countries but also by state and private institutions. It is still debated how many countries could potentially afford to provide students with the technology devices in regards to inability to provide education as such. On the contrary, such countries as France, Canada and Japan, the USA have started referring to the use of technology in its positive aspects. In particular, the above-mentioned countries encourage learning by completing tasks on digital devices. For instance, some of the French cities as Lille already illustrate the awareness of the role of technology in education in a long run by allowing children from toddler age to use laptops, tablets and Ipads for learning. The practitioners note that the process of incorporating technology in the process of learning carries rather positive than negative aspects as toddlers can see the world and be more aware of what to expect in the future. Not that long ago the British newspaper Guardian published an article dedicated to the use of technology in education. The article particularly stresses the necessity to rely on the technology in a learning environment while taking into consideration certain aspects. In particular, one has to be aware that such process of learning shall be carried out in a rapid and reliable manner.
With the rise of discussions dedicated to the role of technology in education, one can note the emerge of centers for innovative education in many countries, developing and first world countries. With such tendency, one could note a rapid spread of technology in the world of education. Therefore, one shall stress the following long-term effects of the technology in the education process. First of all, teachers will be more aware of the fact that classroom structure will change rapidly. In the long run, many states will have to review their policies regarding the use of technology in public institutions as some of the countries still stay on the conservative line and prefer to rely on traditional methods in education. In terms of education, some of the innovative tendencies evidence rather positive influence of the technology than negative as the process of learning could be conducted in a various way. So, if one manages to adapt the educational system to the proliferations in technology, certain progress would be noted, too.
Technology and Medicine
The impact of medicine on technology has a drastic effect on the lives of many people these days. When some tend to refer to the potential of the research to be done for the sake of saving lives of many people, others question the technological influence on medicine due to some controversies in intellectual property rights that could significantly affect the way private information about patients is kept. Therefore, the influence of technology on medicine carries two-sided effects, positive and negative. So, one shall examine closely both.
Stanford Medical Schools, one of the most reputable of its kind mentions the importance of the positive impact of technology on the medical area. In particular, one may note that in a long run technology could influence the study of genetics and consequently carry positive aspects on an individual’s life. Technology influences on the perception of knowledge in medicine, so that risk of illness significantly diminishes while one could interfere into biological processes, resulting physical characteristics of an individual more significantly. Thus, in a long run technology will have an important influence on patients health in a rather positive way.
What’s more, the new techniques that are being applied these days enable the process of body visualization. For instance, these days technology permits to get imprints of brain images that comprise an essential part of the comprehension of state conditions of a patient. Furthermore, in a long run technology will have an important influence on medical engineering by allowing to grow and regenerate body cells. Previously, such options were not considered in the 20th century at all.
It shall be noted that positive aspects of the use of technology in medicine shall be regarded from the perspective of the spread of innovation. In many cases, technology overlaps with other industries and undertakes the upcoming tendencies on its dimension. For instance, the use of engineering as it was mentioned above might have crucial effects for the future of medicine. Moreover, as many other disciplines, technology finds itself at the intersection with other disciplines, such as business innovations, web development, and computer engineering. When one refers to these disciples as to the combination of one of the most effective approaches, it would be noted that technology carries some inevitably positive results.
However, technology and digitalization in particular carry some of the negative influences, too. One of the most controversial cases related to the implementation of technology in everyday life is related to the collecting of patient’s information. In particular, some doctors find it easier and faster to proceed with all data, related to patients’ health in a digitalized form. Yet, such approach gained much criticism in many federal states. On one hand, digitalization helps to prevent time loss while providing a treatment to a patient. On the other hand, one could note that the access to the private information of a particular patient is given without asking any permission of the involved person. Therefore, there is still an ongoing debate regarding the address to that issue on the federal level and then on the national level in the United States. While thinking of the files’ digitalization in a long run, one shall ensure the respect of intellectual property rights and refer to patients for asking their permission of digitalization. Also, it shall be noted that such issue may emerge primarily in the countries where access to medicine is unquestionable.
To sum up, technology carries a number of positive effects of medicine. In particular, due to the intersection with other industries, digitalization and use of new instruments leads to the search of new approaches of treating different types of diseases which was unthinkable in the époques beforehand. On the other hand, in many cases digitalization of personal files of patients might lead to the restrictions of spreading private information and accessing personal information without any additional permission. Therefore, one shall seek for the balanced approach in treating medical care with technology and digitalization, so that negative effects could be eliminated.
Conclusion
In the research paper, the two dimensions of technological influence, in the long run, were analyzed. In particular, impact on education and medicine was chosen as the central point for the research. Having studied the two cases, one has come to the following conclusions.
There is a different attitude towards digital innovations in education and medicine, regarding a country and a type of government. While, in some developed countries, the technological innovations and new approaches in teaching are strongly encouraged, other countries demonstrate the fear to deal with the rapid spread of devices in one’s life. In a long run, those who manage to apply the technology in an effective manner should be considered as winners as sooner or later the life would be fully overwhelmed with device. Therefore, the technological influence in education shall be perceived as a positive aspect in one’s life.
On the contrary, medicine proves to adjust more effectively to the digitalization and technological widespread. From the perspective of its influence on patients’ conditions, the technological effects should be perceived as a given chance to influence on the generating of the new type of treatments for various diseases. Yet, the issue of file digitalization that contains patients’ information shall be tackled effectively. Otherwise, the influence of technology in medicine would be classified as ambiguous. Therefore, if one manages to influence on the issue related to intellectual property rights, the impact of technology in a long run would have many more positive effects than negative.