Computerised world - 2020 year of digital boost
COMPUTERISED WORLD
2020-year of digital boost
As the world continues its battle to contain the novel coronavirus pandemic for more than 9 months now, it’s hard to remember a time before COVID-19 where there were no masks, no need to socially distance ourselves, running trains, busy roads, and whatnot. The lives of people around the globe came to a screeching halt earlier this year, with the virus forcing most to stay at home, order necessities online, and avoid physical interaction as precautionary steps. Stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, with movie theatres closed and no restaurants to dine in, people have been spending more of their lives online.
Technology offers vital weapons for effectively monitoring and controlling disease outbreaks, as humans simply cannot operate and match the scale and speed at which artificial intelligence-powered machines can operate. Education, defense, medicine, business, entertainment, communication, and almost every other thing is related to computers in today’s world.
How COVID-19 disease influenced our online activity
The offices and schools all over the world have moved into our rooms. This change had the most profound impact on online activity. School assignments are being handed out on Google Classroom. Meetings are happening on Zoom, Google Hangouts, and Microsoft Teams. Computers, smartphones, and cheap internet data packs have revolutionized the field of education. A data-enabled mobile phone opens the door to vast resources.
Impact on different industries
Online learning and distance education has changed the fortunes of many. The curiosity to learn and diligent efforts are sufficient to succeed. High-quality, world-class courses are available at affordable rates through MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) from top-notch universities. The software programs are better than print media in presenting the subject to the students. In this way, they are more interested in learning and take the initiatives to know further. It increases the quality of education that people receive. Moreover, computers have vast storage spaces, and the durability of the study material is also high. In specific fields like architecture and mechanical engineering, there is a paradigm shift in pedagogy. They learn and use software technologies like CAD and CAM (computer-aided design and manufacturing).
Computers are vital in the communication and transportation industries. They control our satellites and traffic signals. Through Big data and analytics, companies make business decisions. Technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and IoT (Internet of Things) could bring a sea of changes in our daily lives. A range of industries right from agriculture, textiles to our defense field is highly dependent on computer technology. There does not exist a sector, which is untouched by the magic of computers.
Modern healthcare would become void without these wonderful machines. The hospitals require computers in all stages of treatment right from diagnosis to surgery. The advanced scans such as MRI and CT (Computerized Axial Tomography) scans help us detect life-threatening conditions. The entire department of radiology is dependent on these electronic machines. Then we have fitness trackers and ECG bands that could warn us of imminent heart ailments and strokes. Our doctors perform robotic surgeries by looking at a monitor. We are moving towards a time when we can swallow the computing devices in the form of a pill to get accurate images of the internal organs like the intestines.
The way we communicate today is primarily due to the rapid developments in computer and internet technologies. We can control the satellites, traffic signals, locate trains, etc. from remote places. The GPS (Global Positioning System) has a myriad of applications in life. We use Google Maps to get directions on our way, we can share our lives travel routes with the family, and we can also check the arrival of our food orders through services like Zomato and Swiggy. Instant messages, social media, video conferences, and Skype meetings attribute their existence to advanced communication systems. With nearly all public gatherings called off, people are seeking out entertainment on streaming services like Netflix and YouTube and looking to connect with one another on social media outlets like Facebook. Also, the fact that emails are not for sending and receiving messages alone; companies are using them as marketing tools.
We live in a world where Alexa plays the music in the living room, and Siri sets the alarm on the phone. If we acknowledge that our mobile phones are computers-based, then our life is not imaginable without them. Can we survive without phone calls and text messages? Our gas bills, bank payments, groceries, meals, clothes, and all basic needs are met via a smartphone. Not far is the day when most of us will have robots in our homes, loading the dishwasher and assembling our furniture.
The computer is a very important machine that has become a useful part of our life. Also, the computers have twin-faces on one side it’s a boon and on the other side, it’s a bane. Its uses completely depend upon you. Apart from that, a day in the future will come when human civilization won’t be able to survive without computers as we depend on them too much. Till now, it is a great discovery of mankind that has helped in saving thousands and millions of lives.
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