ManTech: Paper 5

IT issues that have bothered the society


Ever since the Y2K bug ended, almost every people are now aware of what it can really do. They thought that every computer will crashed and their documents will be lost. Everyone was panicking. From office workers and even I.T. literate persons are also being hysterical. They didn’t actually know what it can do to their computers until it comes to a point that they spent a lot of money back-upping their files. All of this non-sense should not or somewhat can be lessen if the some people back then are not so ignorant and gullible about it.

I have read a small article about the Y2K bug. It states that all computer powered machines such as hospital tools, credit cards, air traffic controls, military weapons or even nuclear weapons will malfunction and will lead to the end of the world. Some religious leaders believe that it is one of the prophecies that will cause to destroy the earth. Worried people stashed and reserves food and batteries, the U.S. government spent nearly 9 million $ just to repair and fix computer as the so called “apocalypse” will come. But eventually programmers and some experts resolve the “apocalypse”. That catastrophe should not happen if people were not so ignorant and gullible. They should know what would be the least and worst thing that could happen.

As time flies, and so as technology, we should be aware of what the current technology can do to our lives. For me, it is not impossible that humans can be replaced by robots. Less manpower means more effectively but also less in livelihood. These would cause people to lose their job resulting more poor people. It is okay in some wealthy countries to be replaced by robots to do their jobs, but here in the Philippines? Of course not. We are way behind in other countries in terms of technology and development. I just hope that when the time comes that almost all of our workers have been replaced by robots, all of our workers would have a better lives than before.


Reference:
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/y2k/a1.html