Computer: Advantage or Disadvantage?

@louie847 (350)
Philippines
September 25, 2010 12:42am CST
We are becoming increasingly independent on computers. They are used in business, hospitals, crime detection and even to fly planes. What things will they be use in the future? Is this dependence on computers a good thing or should we be more suspicious of their benefits?
6 responses
• Philippines
18 Oct 10
The advantage of having a computer is you can easily communicate to other people if you have connection or a broadband. You can also get some new friends and find a job through computer. Having a computer is very good but it is up to you of how you manage or control yourself, and time. The disadvantage is it can hurt your eyes if you stay longer facing the computer. You cannot do some home activities or other work of having a computer, because your busy playing games or chat even though it is not important.
• Philippines
25 Sep 10
Computers are widely used in every aspect of the world. It creates a virtual world which everyone enjoys its benefits. People are continuing to improve the performance and capabilities of computers, and they keep on looking ways to address the current issues or its drawbacks. In the following years, people all over the world would use computers to make their lives easier. People would be very dependent. However, we should also be aware and cautious at some point.. ^.^
@dark_joev (3034)
• United States
25 Sep 10
Computers have no feelings and just run programs which could be rules and conditions basicly all a program is a series of math equations that the computer reads answers and moves on as instructed they will be most likely applied to a fully automated traffic control system, Missile Defense Network and other basic Control Jobs. As these require the ability to read input and create the right kind of output like with the traffic control system maybe have the lights turn green and red and make it so rush hour traffic jams never happen. Or have a missile Defense network that can track the missile find its likely tartget warn that area and fire the needed countermeasure in order to intercept and take the missile out before it hits its target they already have computers that can track and hit things as small as a mortar look up laser defense system on youtube and you will see what the good old United States Military is doing with a 500 Billion dollar budget with 500 billion also coming from the private sector.
@zorzon (71)
• Brazil
25 Sep 10
Sometimes i feel like enslaved by computers. They really are usefull and make lots of our activities easiar. Besides, when they crash, we become really helpless. I work on a hospital and, yesterday, a lightning striked the energy cables and the switches which we used in the network went down. For hours, we could not work because the LAN was completely offline. I think that no technology is completely good, nor even completely bad. But I am sure that if not for the computers, life would be a way harder. I like going to the cashing machine, paying my bills, taking some money out, without having to ask anyone for it. Hurray to the computers!
@tomitomi (5429)
• Singapore
25 Sep 10
As long as we control them we will always be their masters. But it takes lots of hard work and knowledge to do so. Only then we will able to maximize their potentials.
@kiddrow (32)
• Canada
25 Sep 10
the number one advantage: its make work easier and faster the major disadvantage: we are becoming lazy