ICT's Effect on People's Lives at Home

ICT's Effect on People's Lives at Home

This report is to research how ICT affects people's lives at home.

These vary from the most obvious and the less obvious. These are in

different categories like entertainment, education and technology that

help people to do everyday tasks. Technology has developed a lot over

the last 10-15 years. The improvements made through technology are

magnificent. The reason why technology development has been so

successful is that people are backing the developments. People are

welcoming technology because it makes their every day tasks easier and

more time efficient.

One of the fastest growing technology is the Internet. The Internet

covers entertainment and education, communication and also everyday

chores like shopping. Before the Internet was formed people had to go

to libraries and find other sources of information, this was time

consuming and a lot of times people didn't get the information they

wanted. With the Internet it's like having all the sources of

information in a box. The Personal Computer (PC) is used to do work,

research and for entertainment. The PC allows us to do work and it

also stores information and record for us. The Internet is also a good

way to communicate with people using chat rooms and email. Companies

nowadays use the Internet to keep in touch with their employees using

email, video conferencing and text messaging. I use the Internet at

home and at school to research, communicate and just for basic

entertainment like games etc. The Internet is often run using the PC

or a laptop or through the new relatively new technology which is

called WAP. WAP enables you to visit I...

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...hich would then be aptly named a DVD. This technology provides

entertainment to you at the best quality possible in your own home.

It's a better version of a VCR. The disc was smaller and it had easy

scene location unlike the videotape you could actually go to the exact

scene you wanted at the push of a button. The DVD has cinema quality

display so this saves you time and money spent on visiting the

cinemas. I personally use DVDs because of their picture quality. They

are a great technology because they are easy to get hold of and are

cheap to buy.

Technology has had a boom over the past few years and most of the new

technologies have managed to satisfy any customer needs. As new

technologies emerge they are getting cheaper and better. So the way I

see it technology is good because of its services and also its price.