Social positive and negative effects of information technology

(A), the positive impact of information technology

1, the impact on social development.

Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and now information technology has become the forefront of science and technology, and human society has stepped into the information society from the industrial society.

With the wide application of information technology, it has caused profound changes in all aspects and fields of society, accelerated the development of social productive forces and improved people's quality of life.

Information resource has become a new resource to promote economic development after material and energy, knowledge products formed by knowledge innovation have become a new mode of economic growth, and information industry will become one of the main pillar industries in the information society.

The development of information technology has turned the world into a global village. Now people can share the fruits of social progress in time and reduce the differences brought by regional differences and economic development, which not only promotes cultural exchanges and learning between different countries and nationalities, but also makes culture more open and popular.

2. Impact on scientific and technological progress.

Information technology has promoted the change of new technology and greatly promoted the progress of science and technology. The application of computer technology helps people to overcome one scientific problem after another, so that complex calculations that originally took decades or even hundreds of years to be solved manually can be completed in a few minutes with computers; The application of computer simulation technology can simulate various situations that may occur in reality, and it is convenient to verify various scientific hypotheses. Information technology with microelectronics as the core has promoted the development of a number of cutting-edge technologies such as space development, new energy development and bioengineering. In addition, with the application of information technology in basic disciplines and its integration with other disciplines, the emergence and development of emerging disciplines (computational physics and computational chemistry) and interdisciplinary disciplines (such as artificial intelligence and e-commerce) have been promoted.

3. Influence on people's life and study.

The wide application of information technology has promoted the improvement of people's work order and quality of life, and people's work style, lifestyle and learning style are also changing. You can know what's going on in the world without leaving home, and people can still do things without leaving home. Some people can go to work at home instead of on time. Online medical treatment, online teaching, online learning, online meeting, online shopping, online business negotiation and online entertainment have become a new way of life. The application of network technology and multimedia technology in teaching makes people's learning content richer and learning methods more flexible.

(B) Information technology may bring some negative effects.

We must clearly recognize some negative effects that information technology may bring and try to eliminate them.

1, information flooding. On the one hand, information grows rapidly, on the other hand, people spend a lot of time but can't find useful information. The growth rate of information exceeds people's ability, which leads to the emergence of information flooding.

2. Information pollution. Some wrong information, false information and dirty information are mixed in all kinds of information elimination, which makes it difficult to distinguish right from wrong and true from false; If you don't analyze it from the beginning, you will be easily deceived and poisoned by it.

3. Information crime. With the popularization of information technology application, people's dependence on information systems is getting stronger and stronger, and information security has become an increasingly prominent problem. Some lawless elements take advantage of the security loopholes in information technology and information systems to carry out criminal activities such as information theft, information fraud, information attack and destruction, which have caused social harm.

4. Possible adverse effects on people's physical and mental health. If people don't have certain information recognition ability, they are easily influenced and poisoned by some bad information, which leads to some behavioral deviations. If we rely too much on modern media such as computer networks, people's ability to read books, practice in person and communicate with others will be easily weakened. The virtual world in the network environment and anonymous activities in the network have brought new ethical problems to people, and people are prone to dual personality. They are one identity in real life and play another identity in the virtual world of the network. A few students have been addicted to the internet for a long time, which leads to social phobia in real life. Long-term use of computers, if you do not pay attention to self-regulation, can easily lead to vision loss, cervical pain and other diseases.