حل تشریحی سوال شماره 16 زبان عمومی و تخصصی (انگلیسی)

In the Information Age, the emergence of computing technology and microelectronics, coupled with telecommunications, allows data and information to be rapidly processed and transmitted. They meld together to form a unified field known as information technology (IT). The term information technology was coined in the late 1970s, to refer to this nexus of modern technology, although the precise meaning of information technology differs from person to person. Here. we adopt a loose definition that any use of the above modern technology to process and transmit data or information will be included in information technology- hence including office automation, robotics. digitized voice and image transmissions. Faced with the rapid development of information technology, scientists and technologists are optimistic about the bright future made possible by the modern technology, whereas social workers and psychologists are alarmed at the effects on societies and individuals, and trade unionists fear widespread unemployment caused by the use of new information technology. People who are not acquainted with information technology sometimes suffer from unnecessary anxiety or raise false hope about technology. The consequences of either extreme are undesirable.