This document discusses the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on various aspects of modern life. It addresses what ICTs and the information society are, how ICTs impact daily life both positively and negatively, how organizations use ICTs, the importance of digital literacy, issues around information veracity and the deterioration of some human skills with technology advancement. The document also discusses how technology and human development have evolved over time.

1. Sara Mardones Cano
Elena Fontecha Herguido

2. INDEX:
• What´s ICTs?
• What´s information society?
• Ict in our daily lifes.
• Ict social organization.
• Digital literacy.
• Veracity of the information.
• Deterioration of some human skills.
• Development.

3. WHAT´S ICTs?
• ICTs are the services, platforms and merchanisms that have emerged in time and space quickly and
efficient international communication flows possible.

4. VIDEO- WHAT IS INFORMATION SOCIETY?

5. WHAT´S INFORMATION SOCIETY?
• It reffears to a society in which the creation, distribution, and manipulation of information has become the most
significant economic and cultural activity. Information Society may be contrasted with societies in which the economy is
primarily Industrial or Agrarian.
Computers and telecommunications.

6. ICT IN OUR DAILY LIFES:
Internet, televission, mobile phones, computer- based devices and other new forms of information technologies are changing in a very
quickly way:
There are two types of aspects:
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7. POSITIVE IMPACTS ON PEOPLE
Acess of information
Improved access to education
New tools
New opportunities

8. NEGATIVE IMPACTS
ON PEOPLE
Job impacts
Reduced personal interaction
Reduced physical activity

9. Acess of information:
• Possibily the greatest effect of ICT on individuals is the huge increase in acces of information and services that has a compained the growth of
internet. Some of the positive aspects are cheapper, communications, new opportunities of leisure and entertainment and facilities with contacts and
relationships with people.

10.  Improved access of education:
Distance learning and on-line tutorials:
 New ways of learning: interactive multi-media and virtual reality.
 New job opportunities, virtual officies and jobs in the communications industry.

11.  New tools:
• The second big effect of ICT is that it gives access to new tools that did not previously exist. A lot of are tied into the access of information.

12.  New opportunities:
• ICT can be used to help people overcome disabilites: Screen magnification or screeen reading software.

13.  Job loss:
• One of the largest negative effects on ICT can be the loss of a person´s job: Economic consequences, loss of income and social
consequences.
• Job losses may occur for several reasons: Robots replacing people, job export.

14.  Reduced personal interaction:
• Most people need some form of social interaction in their daily lives and if they do no get the chance to meet and talk with other people
they may feel isolated and unhappy.

15.  Reduced physical activity:
• Users may adopt a more sedentary lifestyle. This can lead to help problems. Many countries have workplace regulations to prevent this types
of problems.

16. ICT ORGANIZATION:
Traditional computer-based technologies (things you can typically do on a personal computer or using computers at
home or at work).
Digital communication technologies (which allow people and organisations to communicate and share information
digitally).

17.  Traditional computer based technologies:
Standard office applications:
• Word processing: MS Word to write letters, reports, etc…
• Spreadsheets: MS Excel to analyse financials, calculations, create forecasting models, etc.
• Database software: Oracle/MS SQL Server/Access to manage date in many forms from basic lists (customer contacts to catalogues).
• Presentation software: MS Powerpoint to make presentations.
• Desktop publishing: Adobe Indesign/Quark Express/MS Publisher to produce newsletters, magazines and other complex documents.
• Graphics software: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create and edit images such as logos, drawing or pictures for use in DTP, websites or
other publications.

18. Specialist applications:
• Accounting package: Sage/Oracle to manage an organisation account.
• Computer Aided Design (CAD): to assist the design process. Specialist programmes exist for many times of design such as architectural,
engineering, electronics and roadways.
• Customer Relations Management (CRM): to allow businesses to better understand their customers by collecting and analysing data such as
their product preferences and buying habits etc. Often linked to software applications that run call centres and loyalty cards.

19.  Digital communication technologies:
• Communication of data by electronic means, usually over some distance is often achieved via networks of
sending and receiving equipment, wires and satellite links.
• The technologies involved in communication tend to be complex. You certainly don't need to understand
them for your ICT course. However, there are aspects of digital communications that you needs to be aware
of. These relate primarily to the two types of network and the ways of connecting to the internet. Let's look
at these two briefly:

20.  Internal networks:
• Usually referred to as a local area network (LAN), this involves linking a number of hardware items (input and output devices plus
computer processing) together within an office or building.
• The aim of a LAN is to be able to share hardware facilities such as printers or scanners, software applications and data. This type of network
is invaluable in the office environment where colleagues need to have access to common data or programmes.
LAN

21.  External networks:
• You often need them to communicate with someone outside your internal network, in this case you will need to be part of a wide area
network (WAN). The internet is the ultimate WAN - it is a vast network of networks.

22. DIGITAL LITERACY

23. WHAY IS DIGITAL LITERACY?
It´s the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and analyze information using digital technology. It involves a working
knowledge of current high-technology, and an understanding of how it can be used. Digitally literate people can communicate and
work more efficiently, especially with those who possess the same knowledge and skills.

24. • Research around digital literacy is concerned with wider aspects associated with learning how to effectively find, use, summarize,
evaluate, create, and communicate information while using digital technologies, not just being literate at using a computer.
• Digital literacy encompasses computer hardware, software (particularly those used most frequently by businesses), the Internet, cell
phones, PDAs, and other digital devices. A person using these skills to interact with society may be called a digital citizen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_literacy

25. VERACITY OF THE INFORMATION
Information is available from many sources and in many formats. To make effective in navigation your way through these varied sources, you
need to know why, when, and how to use all of these tools and think critically about the information they provide.
Information veracity is the ability to
• Identify and locate information
• Evaluate the information's validity
• Use the information appropriately and ethically

26. DETERIORATION OF HUMAN SKILLS:
Technology is extremely useful and necessary in our times.
• Technology birth arises as a way of excelling itself, to be perfected, to there analyze and to be favored the progress of the humanity and the
evolution of the man.
• Science and the study of the human mind have generated hypothesis and theories that explain the operation of the human brain and the mind.
There is a difference between the evolution of the mind and the technological evolution:

27. • The first is given only in laboratories or specialized studies, these advances have not been applied to humanity as a
whole.
• At present, technological evolution has reached a point where the most advanced machines equal or exceed in some
respect the functioning of the human mind.

28. DEVELOPMENT:
• Man has evolved potentially over the years. Human beings have evolved in social intelligence, language, manual skills,
survival, hunting.(As Roman Gubern explains in The Hypothesis of the Lake).
• Every person is made up of a cultural, ethical and moral basis. There is also a theory developed by psychologist Carl G.
Jung in which he establishes a language common to all human beings of all times, made up of symbols.

29. • Aristotle wrote many years ago that beyond the material or ephemeral ends of man, there is a supreme, absolute end that is happiness.
• The opinions of each man are different and this can cause a lack of understanding between people, a division. This division is clearly
established in today's society.
• Technology is beneficial and necessary for man. Today, it could be said that it is a basic need of man. Technological advances have been
incredible. Integrated circuits double their capacity in less time.

30. • The technological development in the last years has advanced enormously, as much in speed as in quality and
capacity. These developments have taken place both in the scientific and laboratory fields.
• A new theory has been enunciated which asserts that the evolution of man began more than eight million years
ago.

31. • A study conducted at Stanford University determined that:
"... each person has in his head more connections than those that add up all the physical networks of the world. (...) A synapse,
by itself, is more like a microprocessor - with memory storage elements and information processing - than a simple on / off
switch "

32. • These researches are a remarkable breakthrough for our evolution, the development of the mind, has not had a
concrete evolution of the human brain in recent years. Neither has there been a development that is as broad, rapid or
complex as the advances that have been made with the new technologies.

33. • Towards the end of the twentieth century man has entered a stage of loss of knowledge and ability of
knowledge due to new technologies. What can be observed as a result of this research is a clear deterioration
in the quality and thinking capacity of man caused by excessive use of new technologies.

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