Effects of Computerisation

1. EFFECTS OF
COMPUTERISATION

2. INTRODUCTION
 FAST CHANGES
 HUMAN MIND
 MORE CONVENIENCE
 PROFESSIONALS DEPEND ON
COMPUTERS
 EVEN NON-PROFESSIONALS-
ENTERTAINMENT AND
COMMUNICATION AT HOME

3. DEPENDENCE
 SOCIETY DEPENDS ON COMPUTERS
 E.G.- FINANCIAL WORLD

4. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
 The shopping centres, the financial world of
banking, insurance and credit companies.
 Industrial organisations: steel, chemical and
oil companies:
own internal administration and actual
control of the plant processes, in extremes
of cold, and in dirty and noisy atmospheres

5. EDUCATION AND
AMDINISTRATION
 Form of teaching is known as computer-
assisted instruction (CAI) and computer-
assisted learning (CAL).
 Civil Service aids the government in
applying the laws of the country; local
County Halls: administration of street
lighting, refuse collection, housing, road
maintenance, local laws etc.

6. TRANSPORTATION, OTHER
PROFESSIONS
 Land, sea and air transportation and also
traffic systems
 The law, medicine, libraries, the armed
forces and many other professions and
working environments

7. INDIVIDUALS
 The motorist, the air passenger, some
hospital patients, the shopper in any large
store, everyone who pays for rates,
electricity, telephone or gas has their bills
processed by computers.
 Most people who receive a weekly or
monthly salary: salary slips generated by
computers.

8. Why Society is Dependent upon
Computers
 Ability to calculate (computer): speed,
accuracy, consistency
 Processing Information: ability to record and
store information, process that information,
and reproduce the information efficiently.
For quick decisions.

9. DISADVANTAGES
 Privacy of Personal Information
 Unemployment ( new jobs also created.
Use computer for dull and repetitive
tasks, use people for creative and
challenging work)
 Technology Gap (poor countries)

10. Micro-electronics
 washing machines
 microwave ovens
 petrol pumps
 pocket calculators
 digital watches
 refrigerators
 word processing machines
 point-of-sale device
 many computer peripherals, in military and space
applications, and in aircraft

11. Some Applications of
Microcomputers
 Small organisations (lawyers, accountants,
doctors)
 Industries (automated assembly process)
 Robotics for the disabled

12. The Future Home Computers
 Breakfast, telephone calls, notes to reminds us
 Working from Home (shop, CAL)
 The Electronic Office
 Artificial Intelligence (capability to reason, to
make judgments, and even to learn. E.g.
diagnosing lung diseases, locating mineral
deposits, and deciding where to drill oil wells.)
 Great political and social revolution

13. ROBOTICS
 Advantages
Increase productivity, Accuracy, Reliability,
Flexibility situations, Quality, Speed,
Efficiency
 Disadvantages
Initially expensive, Unemployment, Can
cope with only particular aims, Need special
maintenance

14. CONCLUSION
 NO HUMAN CONTACT
 HIGH WAGES FROM CLERKS
 The future does not depend so much on
computers but upon our use of computers
 Decide when to use computers and when
not to use them.