How does information technology change our lives?

Information technology is changing our lives:

Throughout history, the emergence of a major new technology often changes the world's competitive landscape. Britain seized the opportunity of steam engine technology and took the lead in achieving industrialization. The United States seized the opportunity of electric power technology and became a world power in one fell swoop. Now, the emergence of information technology is another opportunity before all countries in the world. In a sense, information technology has changed the entire world, and information technology has changed our lives.

First of all, information technology allows us to obtain all kinds of information more conveniently. The rapid development of storage technology and network means has created a massive amount of information on the Internet. The powerful search function allows us to easily select discourse objects, and the real-time publishing characteristics of the network enable us to obtain information from all over the world at the fastest speed. .

In the past, it was very difficult for overseas readers to read my country's "People's Daily". Due to postal problems, it usually took about five days to see it; if they wanted to watch CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, they usually had to wait until a week later to download the video from the Enjoy. Nowadays, news events and related reports of the day can be viewed at any time from major websites in my country, and the Spring Festival Gala can also be watched in real time via the Internet. According to reports, in 2006, CCTV used CDN and P2P technologies to broadcast the Spring Festival Gala online. More than 4 million netizens in more than 60 countries and regions watched the Spring Festival Gala online, with a maximum of 500,000 online at the same time.

Secondly, information technology has made society more transparent and efficient, thereby greatly increasing the power of ordinary people to participate in national affairs. In the coverage of the "Two Sessions" that has attracted much attention at home and abroad, from the direct hotline call to the "Two Sessions" to the online interaction of netizen representatives, to the text message contact with committee representatives, the "Two Sessions" exudes an increasingly strong atmosphere of transparency. Online resolutions improve work efficiency, reduce physical labor, increase everyone's attention, and also lay the foundation for future online inquiry of response results, from watching the live broadcast of the "Two Sessions" online to "face-to-face" contact with representatives and committee members online , from "online netizens and common people making suggestions" to "offline representatives and committee members offering their opinions and suggestions", the Internet has become a channel for people to understand the "Two Sessions" and has also become a convenient way for representatives and committee members to speak for the people and provide suggestions and suggestions. Many online media have carried out various rapid, systematic, accurate, comprehensive and in-depth reports on the "Two Sessions" through text, pictures, audio and video, etc. Achieve a clear view of the "Two Sessions" information before, during, after, and outside the session; all major, minor, and new things can be seen at a glance. The characteristics of online communication and interaction have created a beautiful scene in the Two Sessions where "online netizens and common people offer suggestions" and "offline representatives and committee members offer advice and suggestions" complement each other.

Information technology is also changing our learning and lifestyle. Today, the widespread application of modern information technology based on computer multimedia and network communications has completely changed people's learning methods, lifestyles and even survival styles.

In particular, the information-based education environment formed by the integration of media technology and educational technology with multimedia network technology as the core is conducive to stimulating students' interest in learning and fully embodying the role of learning subjects due to its interactivity. It provides the diversity of external stimuli to facilitate the acquisition and retention of knowledge, its hypertext characteristics to achieve the most effective organization and management of teaching information, and its network characteristics to facilitate collaboration that can cultivate a spirit of cooperation and promote the development of high cognitive abilities. Discovery-based learning, with its combination of hypertext characteristics and network characteristics, is conducive to cultivating the spirit of innovation and promoting the development of information capabilities. It has brought unprecedented impact to teaching and student learning. It can be said that modern learning is browsing. , consult, hypertext network method.

Online shopping is also becoming more and more popular with people because of its convenience, efficiency and excellent price. Since online products do not require a series of expenses such as renting a store, hiring employees, storage and storage, their prices are generally cheaper than similar products in general shopping malls. At the same time, you can also "go shopping" at home, and ordering is not limited by time; today's fashionable men and women, due to their busy work during the day, do not have more time to go to stores, so online shopping has become the first choice. You can choose as much as you want online and there is no time limit.

Online shopping breaks through the barriers of traditional commerce and has great appeal and influence on consumers, enterprises and the market. In the new economic era, it is undoubtedly an ideal model to achieve a "win-win" effect.

In short, we have never needed the Internet as much as we do today, and no technology has brought people so close, and made China and the world so close, like the Internet and modern communications. The development of information technology is changing the world and turning many human fantasies about the future into reality.

Information technology has changed our lives.