The impact of information technology on life:

I. Benefits:

1, promote work efficiency lifestyle change. From the fixed-point timed classes to work to the home office, shortening the time and distance, while the network communication, online lectures, online shopping, online entertainment, mobile payment and other emerging ways to improve the quality of life.

2. Promote the transformation of learning mode to meet the needs of "learning all the time, learning everywhere". A mobile electronic device, equivalent to a "digital library", do not have to run to the library to find information like the traditional, both time-consuming and laborious.

3, promoting the transformation of the way of thinking. From the "human tool" to "human-computer". For example, mobile learning under information technology, interactive learning, virtualized learning.

4, the realization of the resources **** enjoy, access to information channels diversified and fast, shortening the distance between space and time. Compared with the past beacon, post, and newspapers and other paper media, electronic information media reports from the side of the news to foreign news more widely and more accurately.

Two, the bad:

1, the disadvantages of consumers

such as big data, the rise of artificial intelligence violates the privacy of consumers, personal data security is under threat; companies hold the information advantage, consumers are in the game of the disadvantaged party (such as big data to kill the ripening), infringement of the rights and interests of consumers; so that consumers have access to information narrowing, living in their own information cocoon, individual s thoughts are singularized and polarized.

2, the disadvantages of the market

The sooner the enterprise masters the advantages of information technology, the easier it is to form a monopoly advantage, the abuse of market power by the enterprise seriously affects the fair competition in the market, and hinders the continuous innovation in the market;

3, the disadvantages of the society

The new generation of information technology is the carrier of ideas, power, resources and wealth, and its disorderly development will cause social fragmentation and polarization. cause social fragmentation and division; the development of intelligent society relies on big data, but also because of the increase in the degree of social relevance, in the event of failure, attack, the loss has become huge; information technology covers all aspects of national economy and people's livelihood, and the risks faced in the security will also affect national security.

Scope of information technology applications:

The study of information technology includes the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and management, the application of these disciplines in the management, transmission, and processing of information, related software and equipment, and their interactions.

The applications of information technology include computer hardware and software, networking and communication technologies, and application development tools. Since the popularization of computers and the Internet, it has become increasingly common for people to use computers to produce, process, exchange, and disseminate various forms of information (e.g., books, business documents, newspapers, recordings, movies, television programs, speech, graphics, images, etc.).