Dominic Razzano
10/5/14
Using Technology to Change the World

Technology is something that has been becoming an important part of this world every day. There is so much that happens with technology each day. People use technology every day whether it be for personal, work, or any other use it is an important part of what people do in their daily activities. The improvements have been substantial to the point where some of the new technology is helping in saving lives all over the world. There are many different components to technology that I intend on touching on throughout this essay, helping explain the positives and negatives brought on to us by technology. There are four different places in which technology has an effect and that is the world, our society, our home, and our career. It is in these four different places that technology affects people in certain ways. Technology has taken affect all throughout people’s lives in positive and negative ways make people has certain feelings towards the overall productivity of technology. Technology has done more for this world than most people think and without the things that we have today some of the necessities for people would not exist. It is with the use of technology that the development of places has been so big and useful to people. Technology in the world is something that has help everyone is a somewhat positive way. Technology has accelerated an excessive amount of change in countries through the use of social networking. This use of social networking has brought a connection between people in their own countries. With this connection they are able to exchange ideas about different things that they had a problem with in their country. This is something that social networking is bring to the world, instant connection and information distribution that is reshaping the world. Technology is not only helping with political crisis but also it is enabling global change. Things that are being improved on all over are health care, the environment, and the digital divide. All of these things are being taken into new levels that are helping people in all new ways. As certain forms of technology start to become more common the ability to expand where it is in the world changes. More people start to be able to use it and explore the new things that it brings to them. In our society technology has change how we connect with each other, how we consume products, and how we think about things. Peoples mind set now has changed completely due to technology and will continue to change with the improvements to technology. Through three factors, which are autonomy, mastery, and purpose, they play into how we are fundamentally wired and are leading to powerful projects that are changing the world. Technology also impacts the ways in which we connect with each other. There is connecting through music, connecting through social media, which is a very popular one with people, and also there is connecting through business. Technology also impacts how we consume and purchase items. Companies are now using QR (quick response) codes with cell phones with internet to give people access to their company’s internet page for online browsing or buying. Technology at home is something most people have. A big problem with having it at home is the risk of viruses, and protecting your privacy. The internet is full with hackers that try to plant viruses and also try to steal your identity through hacking into your computer. There are things that people can do in order to avoid such a thing happening to them. Some of the ways people can avoid these problems is understanding the real risks of the internet, using the web wisely by choose safe sites, avoiding online annoyances such as spam mail, protecting your privacy, and avoiding hackers and viruses. By doing all of these things will lead someone to a good experience on the internet and them not having any problems with it. Technology in a careers is something that is very common and has had a positive effect on different careers. In the retail world there is the use of data mining, which is the process of searching huge amounts of data. With art computers are becoming a big part in that career path with adobe illustrator, Photoshop, and Corel painter. Technology has been a big part of the improvements with teaching and education. The steps that haven been taken through the uses of Blackboard or Moodle which are course management sites have helped students greatly. Also students are able to search things they could not search before. Then there is law enforcement which uses technology for computer forensics to gather potential legal evidence. Lastly with medicine the advances in technology have helped save many lives. There many different things that have been improved upon that help the field of medicine. Overall with the improvements to technology over the years there has been more of a positive impact rather than negative with all of the improvements in everything. There has been more positive effects of technology rather than negative making people’s lives easier.

WORLD INTERNET USAGE AND POPULATION STATISTICS
December 31, 2013 | World Regions | Population
( 2014 Est.) | Internet Users
Dec. 31, 2000 | Internet Users
Latest Data | Penetration
(% Population) | Growth
2000-2014 | Users % of Table | Africa | 1,125,721,038 | 4,514,400 | 240,146,482 | 21.3 % | 5,219.6 % | 8.6 % | Asia | 3,996,408,007 | 114,304,000 | 1,265,143,702 | 31.7 % | 1,006.8 % | 45.1 % | Europe | 825,802,657 | 105,096,093 | 566,261,317 | 68.6 % | 438.8 % | 20.2 % | Middle East | 231,062,860 | 3,284,800 | 103,829,614 | 44.9 % | 3,060.9 % | 3.7 % | North America | 353,860,227 | 108,096,800 | 300,287,577 | 84.9 % | 177.8 % | 10.7 % | Latin America / Caribbean | 612,279,181 | 18,068,919 | 302,006,016 | 49.3 % | 1,571.4 % | 10.8 % | Oceania / Australia | 36,724,649 | 7,620,480 | 24,804,226 | 67.5 % | 225.5 % | 0.9 % | WORLD TOTAL | 7,181,858,619 | 360,985,492 | 2,802,478,934 | 39.0 % | 676.3 % | 100.0 % |
Appendix
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