How Have Computers Changed Our Life?

Computers and its uses grew rapidly and widely through out the world. They are used to deal with many tasks due to their various potential. Therefore, they have more influence on our life. Their impact on our life can be classified mainly into four categories: communication, education, utility facilities and health care.

1. Computer and Human Life Correlated with Communication

Computer can bring people closer together and facilitate contacts between them using e-mail, chating, videoconferencing and mobile phones. It saves time and money compared with letters used before making influence of computers in life. These days, we seldom write letters, put in the envelopes and transport over long distances because most of us have computer education.

Print media, Television and Radio play important role in our life. They too have influence on computers from production, control, storage and broadcasting. Using computers we are able to create a document, display it on screen, modify and print it on a printer or publish in front of the world through world wide web. Social networking sites, facebook(link is external), twitter(link is external),blogger, youtube,(link is external) whatsapp(link is external) etc. opens another sophisticated yet easy to use viral communication reveals the importance of computer and human life. If it is not exaggerated, our younger generation has become addicted to use these modern tools. A majority of college students cannot have a day without login to at least one social networking site.

2. Influence of Computer in Education

In education, learning and sharing information has amazing developments after we started using computers in our life. We can find the answer to virtually any question within moments and can communicate this information in a variety of ways in real time. Needless to say we can see every educational institution has interaction of student with computer. The invention of tablet computer made smooth transition to student with computer from heavy bags carrying books and other learning accessories.

Libraries(link is external) have gone digital as well, so the public have access larger amount of information virtually anywhere. Connecting to the internet(link is external) gives us access to worlds of information right at our fingertips and anywhere. Distant education through online and online exams are getting more popular and becomes the paradigm of the higher education. Most of the famous universities offer online education and examination to their students.

3. Influence of Computer in Utility Facilities

Computer also facilitate our life and provides convenience. For transportation, it facilitate the way people travel. Airways, Roadways and waterways uses computers to control their operation. It saves time and relieve severity of traveling difficulties. Other utility facilities like Electricity, Water, Agriculture, etc. are more sophisticated and improved by computer influence.

4. Computer Brings Tremendous Progress in Health Care Sector

Computers provide potential for improving the effectiveness of medical care. It uses storing data of hospital such as patient data and medical information. Doctors and nurses can access to this data easier which resulted in decreasing the process of time. In addition, many operations are no longer manually perform, rather computers are used to manage these tasks.

To conclude, computers have changed our life beyond imagination and continue to play important role on human life and behaviors. It provides advanced facilities for our life and also create effective learning, production, control and utilization.