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Digital technology is playing a major role in our world. It has brought about many changes in our lives. We have been able to interact with people and computers from anywhere, anytime. This has made us more productive and efficient.
In the future, this will only get better as AI will continue to improve and help us with our day-to-day lives.
The ubiquity and consubstantiality of technology are exemplified by the following examples:
These are some of the many ways technology has altered human action, thought, and perception. As a result, technology has led to advances in many fields.
Digital Technology Transformation
Digital communications technologies have transformed how we communicate and interact with the world around us, creating opportunities in all areas of modern life.
The continued transformations in communications technologies during the digital era extend communication media reach into every sphere of social life, within networks that are simultaneously global and local, universal and personalized, with a constantly changing model.
As much as digital communications technologies are used to foster learning and advance equity, they are also used in ways that reinforce inequality.
Digital media literacy in a global age offers much more than using technology to perform tasks previously done manually–such as data or word processing, sourcing information, representing knowledge, and interacting with each other.
It now allows for easier engagement with complex global experiences and networks afforded to us in the connected world.
Mor to Know
That said, blockchain and distributed ledger technology have a ways to go before it is truly affordable to all types of organizations.
Many — including me — think that blockchain and distributed ledger technology will play a central role in increasing trust and making interactions more secure online.
In a digital and virtual age, digital technologies will have an impact on every industry, capable of producing faster, more efficiently, more safely, and accurately.
Our global future is being developed by communicating, cooperating, and innovation — and these are all reliant on technology.
Advancement of Digital Technology
Because we know new technologies are impacting us in an increasingly large way, at a faster pace.
Digital technology has advanced more rapidly than any other disruption in history, reaching more than half the global population in only two decades, and changing the landscape of civilization.
The same is true for the current time period in digital technologies and societal changes. Digital technology, including the ubiquitous connectivity it brings, as well as the artificial intelligence it enables, is the latest and longest-lasting wave in human socioeconomic evolution.
The Growing Complexity
This growing complexity makes it harder than ever–and more urgent than ever–for scholars to explore how technological advances are changing lives worldwide, in positive and negative ways, and what societal, political, and legal tools are needed to help steer the development and design of technologies toward beneficial directions.
Countries competing for top technological developments is not a new phenomenon, but current conflicts are having significant international implications, and they will affect infrastructures being installed and used worldwide in the coming years.
Strategical Harness
Consider these five strategies to harness digital media and technologies to help students understand as well as contribute to the world’s riches and complexity.
If you want to set foot on the ground at 5G, you need to know about information security, fundamentals of artificial intelligence and machine learning, networking, hardware interfaces, data analytics, automation, an understanding of embedded systems, and device and project design knowledge.
We are likely to rely on networked technologies more than ever before (such as autonomous vehicles and mapping).
But we will likely also grow more cautious about invasions of privacy, and how data that we give to big technology companies may be used to serve a human-dominated long-term power.
