Your life without a computer: what does it look like?
Life without computers would be so pathetic. It would be like hell. There would be no fun. Everything would be so different. We’d not be able to mail each other or chat with anyone. It would be so difficult to spend a life without computers. We would not be aware of technology or what things are being discovered. We could get information by newspaper, television, radio or some other medium but on computers we can get it in detail.
The advantage of no computers would be, at least no one could misuse science and technology, as terrorists have been doing for many years. Nor could we find information from the net, related to our projects or some other important work. I could imagine life without computers because I had spent nine days without my computer and I was not able to complete any of my assignments. Life would be really difficult without computers.
Who is the inventor of clocks? Who was the discoverer of India? When did the First World War start? These questions are really hard to find from books as we have to read them for hours when we at last get the answers. But luckily, we have a gadget that can answer these questions in a few seconds. THE COMPUTER, OF COURSE! We need it for our projects, to locate places, look up movie reviews, to shop and even book our tickets. Each and every shop has a computer nowadays, as it stores all the account data. Youngsters surf the Internet for hours, and we are told, they should not. The Net has sites for music downloads, matrimonial ads and even the daily headlines! We need the computer for our day to day use. I cannot imagine my life without the computers, can you?
Communication
One of the major contributions of the computer technology in the world has been the enhancement of the quality of communication. The computer technology alongside the discovery of the internet has eliminated the slow communication platforms that were used in the past (Boothroyd 2011). For instance, without the computer technology, people would have to communicate with their distance relatives through letters. It would be extremely slow to share information with relatives from different parts of the world, and it would be especially difficult to be updated on different global developments (Olsen 2012).
Computers facilitated instant messaging and access to information from the mass media companies across the world. Additionally, the growth of the social media platforms has made the world a global village where people from different parts of the world can share information easily. Living without the computer technology would be characterized by slow and limited access to information.
Health Care
Living without the computer technology would also be characterized by a high mortality rate because the quality of the health care services would be very low compared to the status in the modern world. It is apparent that computers have facilitated the development of technologies that have enhanced preventive health care in the world, as well as the development of medications for various illnesses. Computers are used to analyze different specimens in laboratories to detect illnesses and their potential remedies (Hawkin 2012). Without computers, health care providers would only rely on the knowledge of symptoms to treat patients. This would result in many deaths because illnesses like cancer would not be easily detected without the use of the computer technology.
Human Skills
The computer technology has become an indispensable aspect of the modern world. Scientists have overly concentrated on the enhancement of the capabilities of the computers instead of investing in the enhancement of human skills (Baldry 2012).
It is apparent that computers have taken over different jobs and made human skills obsolete (Ford 2016). The world without computers would compel the authorities to invest in human skills and knowledge, and this would result in a society that is highly specialized in different doctrines. This implies that the rate of unemployment would be relatively low across the world because the corporate sector would require a high number of employees to handle the tasks that computers perform on a daily basis.
Conclusion
Life without computers would be difficult for humankind because the modern world has overly depended on the computer technology to enhance the quality of life. Communication would be relatively slow and limited, and the quality of health care services would be very low. However, the world without computers would compel the authorities to invest in educating the human assets in different doctrines to cover the gap that would be created by the lack of computers. It is vivid that computer technology has had a positive impact on the global society.