Name: Ph m Duy Hon Class: ICT-54B Group: 1

An awesome gift of fire not gives us many things to make our lives more comfortable, healthy and enjoyable but also is destructive.

As with fire, computer technology is also a great new technology but it also creats powerful problems.

Benefits Computer technology Problems

Some means for reducing problems and coping the effects

The development of the technology

The Ubiquity of Computers

Rapid pace of change and the impact of Computers on daily life

Automation of the common teller functions led to a decline in employment for bank tellers From 1983 to 1993, about 179,000 bank tellers were unemployment

Below, people in a line for the bank teller, possible practising compunction

You don't go to a bank teller but you go to an ATM

Automation of teller functions removes the human contact Machine, such as ATM, cannot answer some questions we might have.

Instead of talking to a smiling person

we confront a machine

People are robbed after withdrawing cash at ATMs. Stolen and counterfeit ATM cards are used by thieves. The anonymity of the machine makes ATM fraud easy.

No state crime code defines robberies involving

One of the easiest targets are ATM machines

The record of transaction at various ATMs can provide our informations An error in the computer program that operates the ATMs for a large NY bank caused accounts to be debited twice the amount of actual withdrawal.

Credit card provides customer s informations

Error in an ATM

Unemployment

More people employed in computer stores Computers and automation increase employments

Alienation and customer

Banks are open more hours now than they were before ATMs existed

Crime

Banking industry developed many approaches to reduce fraud and ATM crimeThe records kept of ATM transaction are not a serious privacy problem The error rate for ATM transactions is quite small People can make errors but in some case computer can reduce them.

Loss of privacy and errors

Problems of cyberspace, annoyances, among them crime, pornography, pedophilia, violent fiction and games, copyright infringement, gambling, etc

Violent game

Causes violent actions

Changes in technology require adaptive changes in laws, social institutions, business policies, and personal skills and attitudes New technology makes new activities, some are benefits but some are bad.

Internet makes people isolated gets information more easily

The ease of communication with distant countries countries has profound social, economic Some are benefits of technology Some are bad

Internet makes people isolated gets information more easily

Some of the topics will address an issues more as a problemsolving exercies. Many other issues are very controversial: censorship of the Net, legislation for privacy protection, etc

Chinese internet buffs are coming up with ways to get around censorship

Criteria for making personal choices, for making policies, for businesses and organizations and for writing laws are difference.

Negative rights: rights to act without interference. Positive rights: impose an obligation on some people to provide certain things for others