The document summarizes a group project discussion on technologies and their social implications. It includes: 1. The group members: Ding Lu, Afreh Kwame, Yakovishin Oleksandr, Lossini Yasin and Salahuddin Muhammed. 2. Discussion points on how technologies have affected relationships and social implications of ubiquitous computing. 3. Consideration of ethical dilemmas due to technological advances. 4. Prediction that computing advances will lead to virtual universities, powerful microchips, robots and more technology available to all within 50 years.

1. Group 2
Members are:
Ding Lu,Afreh Kwame, Yakovishin
Oleksandr, Lossini Yasin and Salahuddin
Muhammed.

2. I. How have technologies affected our relationships with
others?
II. What are the social implications of ubiquitous computing?
III. What are some of the ethical dilemmas society is facing due
to advances in technology?
IV. Discuss an advantage and disadvantage associated with
these rapid changes of pace.
V. How do you think the advance of computing technology will
impact our world in the next 50 years?

3. 1. Technology has increased our ability to communicate
more frequently and across vast distance.
 Mobile phones
 E-mails
2 Technology has hinder the growth of natural
relationships.
 Facebook-users are concern with quantity than
quality when it comes to friends.
3 Technology has rob children from developing interpersonal
skills .

4. 4. Technology has and is still helping people to
communicate in a more sophisticate ways than
message sticks, smoke signals, semaphore etc


5. 1. Invading privacy
2. Given way to unemployment
3. Deskilling jobs
4. Reducing the ability of government to control their economies
5. pornography
6. Destroying culture
7. Maniplation of the ’truth’

6. 1. Internet Usage.
a. Illegal downloading of Music, Movies, Books
b. Plagiarism
c. Pirated Software ( Copying, distributing without
any permission )
d. Copyright

7. 2. Weapons
 Guns
 Biological
 Chemical

8. 1 Technology has improved existing business process
 Use of sophisticated IT system .example, e-invoicing
 Netbanking
2 Creating completely new business models
 Using extensive monitoring & searching capabilites
e.g pay-per use
 Ordering a book from Amazon.com
3 Inf luence macro-economic effect s

9. 4 With technology medical science is very progressive and
vastly available.e.g the new Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
treatment equipment for people with depression yet to be
use.
5 Creation of new jobs.
6 Technology has facilitated the movement of people

10. 7. Globalization
8. Bridging cultural gap

11. 1 Terrorism
2 Destroying cities
3 Over Dependency
4 Lack of job security-One needs to learn
always.
5 Dominant Culture e.g U.S culture is almost
every where.
6 Glowbal warming-highly developed machinery
pollutes the globe.
7 Creates new diseases and disorders such as
obesity, laziness and a loss of personality.

12. 1. Virtual universities
2. Powerful microchips
3. Robots
4. Finger print as a sensor
5. Intelligent market
6. Virtual games
7. Technology will be available to the whole community
8. Mediccal inventions like robot doctors, artificial
food,experiment on animals

13. 1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command
=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9003752
2. http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/publ/papers/langhein_aswemayliv
e_2002.pdf
3. www.nae.edu
4. http://www.partnerships.org.uk/itf/itfsum.html (inventing
the future-communities in the information societies)
5. www.humanismtoday.org
6. Management Information System By Kenneth C. Laudon and
Jane P. Laudon.