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Expanding Information Technology: A boon or bane? - Pakistan Today

Last updated Saturday, August 13, 2022 11:46 ET

The proponents and opponents of tech innovation argue about the blessings and harms of the expanded technological advancement in the global arena. From hunter-gatherer societies to modern-day’s post-capitalist societies; the art which has indisputable progress for humanity is the art of technology and change. Technological change provides the economic base and societal revolution in the general. Regardless of unprecedented changes in facets of communications its expansion could turn into cyber warfare, data privacy rights, political malice, and a threat to democracy.
Discussing the inverse logic in the first place; there is not an iota of doubt that expanded information technology has revolutionized the healthcare industry across the globe. The people from Nigeria can connect to New York for medical consultancy with little effort. It has changed the paradigm of the health sector with potential phases. Secondly, in the political arena, the concept of e-governance hasdeveloped. Automation and information technology can be used to collect records and data statistics to make new and efficient policies for the public by using evidence-based policies. Regardless of robust socio-economic and socio-political changes in the structure of society, information technology posited a major setback to the overall growth of society.
The threat to individual liberty due to mass surveillance is circulated everywhere with the dawn of excessive information technology. People have lost the true...



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