TECHNOLOGY IN THE MODERN

WORLD
 FIORELLA ARÉVALO
 CRISTHIAN QUIÑÓNEZ
 FABRICIO RON

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TECHNOLOGY IN THE MODERN
WORLD
Technology is the set of scientifically ordained technical
knowledge that makes it possible to design and create goods
and services that facilitate adaptation to the environment
and meet both the essential needs and desires of humanity.

In these days technology has had a great advance in today's

world and has caused so many positive and negative
impacts.

Technology has managed to make beneficial discoveries in

the modern era because there have been great advances in
medicine, biology, education, among other things; it has even
managed to help save lives, find new unicellular organisms
and help learning.

DIVERSE USES OF TECHNOLOGY

Nowadays technology is indispensable, since it has

collaborated with the development of our country by means
of different procedures that this has allowed us to realize, it
allows us to be informed of what happens in the world by
means of the means of communication like: the radio, the
television, the newspapers or the Internet. But unfortunately
the use of technology is being distorted, because technology
is or was created to make life easier but not to become
dependent on it or for it to supplant the human being which
is happening, but we must bear in mind that a good use of
technology today is to facilitate life and a great help.

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ADVANTAGES OF TECHNOLOGY

1. Access to Information.
2. Enables democracy.
3. Access to the global Market.
4. Greater mobility of money.
5. Increased development and access to medicines.
6. Faster and more efficient communication.
7. Increased movement of goods around the world.
8. Greater healthiness.
9. Increased energy creation. (Power plants).
10. More likely to do justice, with DNA and other tests.

DISADVANTAGES OF TECHNOLOGY

1. Creates addiction to devices such as: Smartphones,

computers, video game consoles, etc.
2. In many cases it has been the perfect substitute for
human capital, eliminating many jobs.
3. It has generated new pathologies at the psychosocial
level.
4. It has generated patterns of conduct that are reflected
in the isolation of society.
5. The comfort generated by technology has caused more
sedentary.
6. Resources are available without discrimination.
7. It has generated new methods of terrorism and
cyberbullying.
8. Allows for counterfeiting, swindling and piracy.
9. It opens gaps between those who have the possibility of
having access to technology and those who cannot.
10. It can violate people's privacy and impersonate
them.
11. Pollution.

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THE ECUADORIAN'S ADAPTATION TO TECHNOLOGY TOOK
ALMOST 10 YEARS.

Although the use of technology and the Internet in our lives

has become almost common, there are still people who have
never used them; this is known as digital illiteracy, according
to the ICT Observatory portal of the Ministry of
Telecommunications.
This group is made up of people between the ages of 15 and
49, with a level of ignorance of new technologies that
prevents them from accessing the possibilities of interacting,
for example, with an active cell phone; computer and
internet, etc.

In 2009, only 24.6% of people had used the Internet; in 2017,

58.3% used this service.
In 2011, only 3.6% of Ecuadorians had a smartphone, while in
2017, the percentage of possession of this device tripled to
33.7% nationwide.

According to statistics from the National Institute of Statistics

and Censuses (INEC) and the Survey of Employment,
Unemployment and Underemployment (ENEMDU), digital
illiteracy on a national scale has been in constant decline
since 2009, when it reached 33.6%; while in 2017 it dropped to
10.5%.

This means that in nine years, Ecuadorians have increased

their use of technological devices and their derivatives. This is
also reflected in the 60.7% with respect to the access and use
of households and individuals to the so-called Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) in 2017.

In the same year also 63.6% of Ecuadorians had a

smartphone; of this group 92.0% of people used the Internet
from this device and 94.7% indicated that they used their
telephone to view social networks.

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Men were the ones who saw most Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, etc., with 94.8% of presence, meanwhile women
reached 94.6%.

Although so far in 2018, in the country there are about 15

million active mobile lines, only 8'910.075 users are subscribers
to the mobile Internet market, and are distributed in the three
largest national telephone operators.

On the other hand, from homes, Internet use and access in

2017 rose to 37.2% compared to 2009 (only 7.65% access),
showing a positive evolution since this service is now more
accessible to citizens.
It should also be borne in mind that until the previous year,
40.7% of people had a computer (desktop or laptop) in their
homes.

The urban area had the greatest access to this service (46.1%
estimated), while the rural sector had only an estimated
16.6%. Pichincha is the province with the highest percentage
of households connected to the Internet (53.7%), followed by
Azuay (51.0%) and Imbabura (44.3%). Other provinces such as
Guayas and Manabí recorded 38.2% and 27.0%, respectively,
in that order.

CONCLUSION

Technology in each of its advances has changed our

perception of the world at home, work and business; we have
all felt the impact of comfort and improvement in the quality
of life, however, we can not ignore that also have emerged
new disorders and psychosocial situations that strongly impact
on the heart of society.

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