Pragati

Personal Impact:
Community Impact:
National Impact:
Global Impact:
Future Impact:
Personal Impact
• privacy and personal rights
• data banks, computer terminals, data security
• employment
• job opportunities, new careers, the need for retraining
• business transactions
• automated billing, credit cards, interac, consumer spending
• the replacement of people through automation
• robots, word processing
• the impact that a machine has on a human - ergonomics
Community Impact
• employment
• traffic control
• urban planning
• law enforcement
National Impact
• communications media
• the use of information for control
• vote counting
• electronic funds transfer
• stock-market transactions
• defense
• surveillance
• national data banks
• employment
• shifting patterns
• telecommunications
• satellite broadcasting
• the possibility of fraud or theft using computer based systems
• standards for computer hardware and software
Global Impact
• reporting of current events
• communications media
• world government
• international standards
• exploration of space and sea
• world wide access to data
Future Impact
• computers in the home
• gaming
• learning
• electronic mail
• shopping
• business transactions
• information processing, storage and retrieval
• the home as a work center
• effect on the family unit and on familiar patterns of life
• travel
• computer communication as a replacement for travel
• the possible disappearance of hard copy as a medium of communication
• the cashless society
• possible effects on the formal education system
• the use of robots in industry and in the home
• teleprocessing networks
• people being reduced to a series of numbers on plastic cards that are processed by machines without human intervention (credit cards, bank cards, social insurance cards, health cards, etc.)
• people having to deal with computers instead of human beings if there is a problem with a computer-prepared