How Electronic Access to Information Has Changed Different People's Lives Around the World
Introduction
Electronic access to information is a tool that has become depended on by many and
because of the flexibility of this tool it can be used by very different people in very
different situations. According to
Internet Live Stats (1)
there
are currently 1,322,744,971 websites on the internet, With this statistic you can see the
amount of information that an individual can access online and you can imagine the major benefit
this brings to many. The purpose of this website is to show you how electronic access to
information influences our everyday lives, as well as the lives of people in various countries
around the world, in both positive and negative ways.
Business and Technology
Technology has provided businesses with immense amounts of information that allow people to learn
deeply about factors like their competitors advancements and the changing opinions of their company's' target market.
Before companies has access to information online the process for retrieving basic files would have taken a long time
and required the participation of many, but with the growing access to information that can be found on the internet,
that issue is gone and people can learn at very fast rates which, in turn, allows them to advance their business at that same speed.
This is amazing for both the economy and the technological and non-technological advances that happen in a country and without this
ability businesses in general would be less informed and less advanced than they are today.
Society and Self-Teaching
Although electronic access to information has provided many businesses with a way to build and adapt, possibly the most powerful and wide ranged
affect of this information is the ability for normal citizens to use it. Many people use technology as a way to learn little facts for their friends
and family but some use it for a much more important and productive task. The ability to teach oneself a skill has been a very long and hard task
in the past, where people would go through years of one on one training to learn their career, but now there are hundreds of thousands of courses
that are made to be learned at any time and at any place. These online courses can teach you; cooking, building, analyzing, and even teaching.
It is no doubt that there are positive benefits of learning in person like the ability to ask any question and to get feedback on your application but,
the amount of people that learn something because of the easy access is undeniable and that is what makes it so great.
Sharing of Information
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The most common way that people learn, to this day, is in casual discussions with both friends and family but likely the biggest advancement to
these discussions is the accumulation of knowledge from the internet that is then shared throughout social and familial communication. When people
talk to one and other they share their opinions and ideas while backing them up with stories or evidence. This evidence is likely found on the internet
and likely, so ids the other person's. The reason that this is important is because there is no possible way that someone could read all 1,322,744,971
websites on the internet but when people gather their own information from online sources they teach that to others and spread this information much
faster than online which progresses people's knowledge much further than it would be without this technology. Even though these; facts, statistics,
and anecdotes are communicated mostly through spoken word, they originated from the internet and grew immensely because of it.
Conclusion
Overall, electronic access to informations has many useful applications to society and business but it also heavily relies on the people consuming it to
spread and make use of the amazing opportunity they posses. Information on the internet is only going to grow, and with that growth both problems and
opportunities will arise but, this information is our future and we must guide it so that is a tool that we control instead of an animal that has a mind of its own.
Questions
How does technological information affect businesses?
How is online information spread offline?
Approximately how many websites exist?
Answers
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