Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Computer

A computer system conveys certain advantages, such as speed, memory, storage, hardware reliability, and accuracy, to its users. However, with these advantages come some disadvantages of computer use, including information overload, the expense of computer equipment, data inaccuracy, and an increasing dependence on unreliable software. Computer technology is growing at such an incredible rate that we are spending more and more time just trying to keep up. A computer processes data at very high speeds. The most brilliant human mathematicians can perform only a few operations per second, whereas an inexpensive computer performs hundreds of millions-even billions-of them in a second. According to one recent estimate, humans will create more information in the next 3 years than they have in all the previous centuries of our existence on this planet. In fact, people are generating so much information today that they often succumb to information overload, feelings of anxiety and incapacity experienced when people are presented with more information that they can reasonably handle. Computer store and recent enormous amounts of data in a variety of formats, including words, graphic images, and video clips, Even an inexpensive desktop computer can store provide quick access to a 32-volume encyclopedia, the entire collected works of Shakespeare, a world atlas, an unabridged dictionary, and much more. This computer power enables users to increase productivity, to gain ideas and insight through collaboration with others, and solve real-world problems. Not only do they hold and generate huge amounts of information, computers are exceptionally reliable and accurate, too. Even the least expensive PCs performs several million operation per second, and can do so for years without making an error caused by the computer’s physical components. For example, you can equip a computer to transcribe your speech with an accuracy of 95 percent or more-which is better than most people’s typing accuracy. In fact, almost all “computer errors” are actually caused by flaws in software or mistakes in the data people supply to computers. Computers store there mistakes for long periods of time and the replicate the errors with amazing speed. Even though computers have strengths and weaknesses, there are additional points to consider in your quest to become a responsible user.