Advantages and disadvantages of Computers

Society has reaped many benefits from using computer. A user is anyone who communicates with a computer or utilize the information it generates. Both business and home users can make well informed decision because they have instant access to information from ananywhere in the world. Students, another type of user, have more tools to assist them in the learning process..

Advantages of using computers:

Benefits from using computer are possible because computers have the advantage of speed, reliability, consistency,storage, and communications.

• Speed.when data , instructions and information flow along electronic circuit in a computer,they travel at incredibly fast speeds. Many computer PROCESSES billions or trillions of operations in a single second. Processing involves computing ( adding, substracti,etc) sorting (e.g., alphabetinzing), organizing, displaying, images, recoding audio, playing music, and showing a movie or video.
• Reliability: The electronic components in the modern computers are dependable and reliable because they rarely break lr fail.
• Consistency: Given the same input and PROCESSES, a computer will produce the result --- consistency . A Computer phrase----- known as garbage in , garbage out---points outthe accuracy of a Computer output depends on the accuracy for the input. For example: if you do not use the flash on a digital camera when indoors, the resulting pictures that are displayed on the computer screen may be unusable because they are to dark.
• Storage: A Computer can transfer data quickly from storage to memory, process it, and store it again for future use. Many computer can store enormous amounts of data and make this data valuable for processing anytime it is needed.

Communication: most computer today can communicate with other computer, often wirelessly. Computers with this capability can share any of the four information processing cycle operations---- input, process, output, and storage---- with another computer or user.

Disadvantages of using Computers:
    Some advantage of Computers relate to health risk, the volition of privacy, public safety, the impact on the labor force, and the impact on the environment.

• Health Risks: Prolonged or improper computer can used lead to injuries or disorders of the hands, wrists, elbows,eye's, neck, and back.
• Computer users can protect themselves from these health risks throw proper work place, design, good posture while at the computer, and appropriately spaced work breaks. Two behavioral health risks are computer addition and technology overload. Computer addition occurs when sone become obsessed with using a computer. Individual suffering from technology overload feel distressed when deprived of Computers and Mobil devices. 

• Once organized, both computer addition and technology overload are treatable disorders.