Tuesday, November 25, 2008

How Technology made our life easier yet more complicated

The other day, I don't have internet connection at home. It was like hell. I felt uneasy all the time, like there is something missing for that day. I know I won't be needing the internet to finish the paper I'm writing, yet I really felt bad. Then a question run through my mind... how did others manage to survive and live with out using the internet before, imagine no Google? or imagine 20 years ago there are no cell phones or dvds or laptops, yet people were able to live.

Technology have really changed the world. It has become part of our everyday life. Once we started using it, we can never go back on where we are from before. It has changed the way we communicate, it has change all our lifestyle. It actually made an orgcom's life easier, yet still more complicated.

There are a lot more media we can use to communicate now. Imagine before as a practitioner, you have limited media to use, like it will be most likely bulletin boards, or printed newsletters, memo, etc... But with technology, you have now have the option to consider websites, emails, group text messages, etc... on top of the old classic way to communicate. So it might it easier to reach people, yet you have a lot more things to consider.

It has change how people in the organization communicate, because of that many organization's structure have change. It is easier to manage a global enterprise, you can work with people from across the world at the same real time. Everything will be within our finger's reach. It made our life easier but made things more complicated We now see a lot of global enterprises, we see a lot of BPOs, we see the same brands everywhere we go, it is like the world is becoming one.

We have now easy access to a lot of information, yet it becomes complicated on choosing what information we are going to use. Technology made things easy for us, yet it have manage to make things complicated. It made us into a more rational being since it requires us to think more of the content, rather than the process.

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