INTERNAL RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
Name of the student: MANIKA GUPTA Enrollment No. : 04615903915
Course: MBA -II
Batch: 2015-2017
Shift: MORNING
Section: A
Subject: MTIC
Subject Code: MS-102
Topic of Assignment: APPROPRIATNESS OF TECHNOLOGY
Subject Teacher’s Name: Ms. AARTI SEHGAL
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
Subject: MTIC Subject Code: MS 102
Semester: II Batch: 2015 – 2017
Instructor: Ms. Aarti Sehgal
QUESTION: The appropriateness of technology depends upon various factors. "Explain the various factors with suitable examples. If you were the technology advisor to a corporate house, what criteria for selection of appropriate technology would you suggest and why?
SOLUTION: FACTORS IN SELECTING APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
• OBJECTIVE:
Setting mission and vision Defining prototype
Explaining need of technology
• BUDGET FORMULATION:
Considering staff time
Add-on cost
Total cost of ownership: open source
• CONDUCTING RESEARCH:
Solving case studies
Comparing products
Search for vendor
• DESCRIBING FEATURES:
Core function ability: what is the need
Integrating other product
Customization
• IMPLEMENTATION:
Nowadays, Technology has broad speculations in our lives. Technology has advantages and disadvantages. There are much diverse age groups that use technology daily. It has come to a fact that we rely on technology to get a breather from our hectic daily life. The very definite functional part of technology has been seen visible in the lowest part of the age group. Young children and teenagers in first world countries have been growing more attached to technology the more advanced it gets. Why does a controversy still exist around the pros and cons of children’s use of technology?
Technologies have affected people in all walks of life. Technological innovations have helped improve our lives and changed our standard of living. Due to advanced technologies, we are able to have fast computers, smartphones, more advanced medical instruments, etc. Although technologies tend to benefit us for the most part, it also has its negatives attached to it. In our society today, there are up rise in identity theft, frauds, and other unlawful criminal activity being committed. The growth of cybercrimes is possible due to our information being easily obtained in the online world. Moreover, technological innovations have helped schools, governments, commercials, private and other parts of modern life to improve the productivity and efficiency. However, on the other hand, technologies as a criminal tool has enhanced the criminal’s ability to perform, hide, or otherwise aid unlawful or unethical activities (Reith et. al, 2002). Furthermore, although the vast majority of people uses computers and other digital devices for a positive reason, there are criminals that use these technologies to perform unlawful and unethical things to individuals and companies to obtain personal information.
Imagine the company did not close in 1967 and has somehow managed to continue operations until today. Discuss the possible use of advice from specialist. What specialists could be consulted to advise on and identify new technology or electronic commerce opportunities?
Humanity has evolved since the beginning of time; we went from using rocks and other objects to create tools that would ensure our survival, to producing technology unimaginable to the human mind. It is apparent that things are a lot different now than they were hundreds of thousands of years ago. Technology is essential to the lives of today’s society.People use technology to carry out even the simplest of everyday tasks. As a result, today’s generation has become so dependent on technology that it controls our day-to-day activities, creativity, and relationships with others. People use technology to carry out even the simplest of everyday tasks. It’s because of its incompetence and ignorance that makes this generation “the dumbest”.
Technology has been evolving and improving at an extraordinary rate so much so that it already started affecting not only the way we live but also the way we behave and think. This essay synthetizes the ideas explored in articles “Better than human: Why Robots will-and Must-Take Our Jobs” by Kevin Kelly, “Is google making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, and “Smarter than you Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better” by Clive Thompson. The authors brainstorm the past, current, and future repercussions that new technologies will cause in our society, economy, and own selves and whether we should welcome them or not.
Technology is a piece of machinery or equipment developed with multiple uses. It can be classified into many categories, such as smart phones, televisions ,and computers. We all use a piece of technology almost everyday. In the book, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, it takes place in around the 1800s and the narrator has supposedly travelled through time to the future. This book shows how technology is too advanced for its time, and others don’t believe its capabilities. They can’t believe that the Time Machine is able to move into the future or back into the past. However, Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald shows how developing nuclear weapons is detrimental. With the development of nuclear technology, humanity eventually ends itself by launching nuclear bombs. And in the book Feed by M.T. Anderson, it shows teenagers living a life with a “feed”. A feed is a small device implanted in people's brains and the book shows how easily it is to become addicted to something like the feed and how much someone may rely on it. Technology can be very beneficial to us or detrimental to us depending on how it is used, but ultimately technology is slowly taking over our world.
other form of technology. When teens are looking at their phones instead of talking to
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Everyday our modern society is introduced to new forms of technology that are created to enhance the efficiency of our daily lives, this may come in the form of cellphones, computers, cars, and even robots to an extend. In recent years I’ve noticed that the development of our society as a collective has come to a holt, the same technology created to make us more efficient on a day to day basis is becoming a dangerous distraction at all times only allowing a few individuals who choose to be off the grid to succeed. The biggest distraction at our disposal today are cellphones; cellphones or smartphones are great, you can speak to anyone through call and text, and use hundreds of apps to stay entertained at all hours of the day to battle boredom. Cellphone technology has advanced ridiculously in the past 20 years allowing our devices to do more than what we intended for them and as a result we have found ways to exploit it for entertainment allowing for us to receive stimuli (pleasure) at all hours of the day in turn harming our attention spam and our ability to interact with others.
We have heard some of the same issues come up over the centuries. Machines are replacing us. How will we work and earn a living if machines are taking over? We will continue to hear this as long as there are people who continue to invent new technology. Technology is not a bad thing. While it does affect jobs, it also opens new ways for creating others. As technology continues to advance in the 21st century, we need to be more proactive in our thinking about the people that it affects along with future generations. I agree with Rogers that we need to rehabilitate, educate and prepare them, to function in this ever-changing world. I don’t think throwing money at them is the answer. This would simply be putting a Band-Aid on the issue, not solving it. In the long run, it would make the people who are being replaced by machines less productive with less equality in society.
Technology has advanced tremendously over time, from the beginning of time when we first discovered how to create fire and when we invented the first wheel. As time advanced we advanced and created new innovations upon objects or inventions. Now today our government has bunches of nuclear missiles, our food is genetically modified and we're all connected by the internet. Bountiful amounts of people have all different opinions on the idea of technology regarding how far it has come along. Here, one can find out why these advancements have been beneficial to society as an entirety.
“We now rely on external brains…” says Amber Case in her TedTalk “We Are All Cyborgs Now.” Technology has been used to do great things like save others from natural disasters, detect illnesses, and much more. However, with technology, people can also do bad. Social media has been used for harassment and bullying, phones are often hacked or stolen. Technology is not black or white, it is not good or bad; it is simply a tool that we have at our disposal to further ourselves.
In this article authors have explained the nature of disruptive technology and argued that the leading companies ignore the importance to identify and nurture the technology at right time. They lose the battle to new entrants, who develop and commercialize those technology well ahead and capture the market before incumbent realize the importance of disruptive technology in business. Innovation is the driver for any industry growth and it has been observed that industries able to innovate as well as maintain current customer satisfied are successful.
According to Vikram (7), technology refers the application of scientific knowledge and skills for practical purposes in diverse fields such as industries, education, and agriculture among other fields. Technology is therefore an organized knowledge for practical purposes in human day to day life.
As time advances so goes mankind and the beginning stages of the 21st century, technological advances have been the leading factor in economics, industry, and everyday life. Moreover, as we develop as a race and instate new devices constructed to improve or decrease the stress of our everyday lives we slowly are deteriorating our social foundations. Use of modern technology is decreasing the social interactions of everyday live that are fundamental and necessary for development and success in all aspects of life.