ICT

Today, technology is everywhere around us. I found myself being surrounded by computer and it sustains people’s lives. For example, I am doing this assignment with my laptop. I used to have no laptop, but I decided to buy this laptop for schoolwork such as assignment, registering courses and taking notes. I would be having a problem if I didn't have the laptop at school, because I need to type essays, handwrite very slow, and have to quickly select courses online. Other ICTs that I often use are ATM, self-checkout machine at grocery store, cell phones, email, online Gibson library etc. I live in Canada by myself so that I need to manage my budget at my bank and ATM. It allows customers to use banking service 24 hours. The traditional way is waiting for the next day if the bank is closed. I always use self-checkout because I simply don’t like the way they put my grocery into bags. This saves labor. The traditional mean is hiring more people for cashier. I always want to put heavy or hard stuff underneath, I contact with my friend, workplace before, and dentist through my cell phone. I even had one when I was in high school back in 2002. Cell phone in Japan is more developed and has been demanded way earlier than in Canada, so pretty much 99% of high school students, a majority of junior high school students, and even some elementary school students have cell phones today. People used to use home phone. Now, people tend to have no home phone, In Japan, every cell phone has both text messages and email. I check my email everyday here. It is for keeping touch with my mother in Japan. I email directly to my mother’s cell, and she timely receives email from me, and reply to my hotmail. Its traditional mean is sending letters. It takes a week at the shortest with the express. There is 12-hour distance from Japan to Canada, but the technology shortens the space and let us tightly connected all the time. I also need Brock’s online searching system of library. This lets me search books not only at school but also home, and I don’t have to spend much time to look for books because it tells me the book is exactly stored. The traditional way used to be looking for a book with a thick book, like a dictionary, with location information. Today, ICT plays an important role for my life. I think people take ICTs for granted to be around our lives. However, I should appreciate that my life has been more convenient because of them. This tells that the current society is filled with much information. I also feel the ICTs are overwhelming our lives. People get affected by some radiation of machines, can’t figure out how to utilize the ICTs, and even get stressed because of complexity of life. We shouldn't be regardless about the negative side of ICTs.