This article considers the increasing impact of technology on our lives.

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Definition

Facebook, Twitter, smartphones and tablet computers. New technologies are dramatically changing our lives.

Lifestyle

People's lifestyles are changing dramatically.

The IT industry tends to place a very high value on improving our quality of life. For example, a lot has changed electronically to decrease work and to simple life as much as possible. Thus much can be done via the Internet which is leading us to live virtual lives.

Virtual/Real Life

New technologies make it possible to do almost everything online whether it is shopping, reading the news, playing games, or communicate with friends. Even the own house can be controlled by touch of a button.

This all is part of the virtual life. About 10 years ago, the virtual reality was just only in computer games.

A gamer lives in his game in another “virtual” World, where he could do almost everything . Things he couldn’t do in the “real” world.

Today, there are not only the games which creates a virtual world. Almost every technology can be controlled by a remote device.

One danger is when people are lost in their virtual life, and lose the connection in their real Life.

Communication

Mobility

Jobs

E-learning

E-Learning is a new concept of learning through the Internet. It simplifies the learning process thanks to the multimedia material, which are often easy on the ear/eye. It provides videos, audio tracks and photos (which concerns mathematics, languages, physics, literature and so on). The following is a list with the advantages of e-learning:

- It is possible to learn languages for free without living in other countries. - Everyone is able to read/learn more about a subject of their interest. - Everyone has the possibility to get instant access to a broad range of information. - People with special disabilities (the blind, deaf and dumb etc.) are spurred to learn new concepts, which also includes the field (or subjects) of their interest. - Decrease of illiteracy. - More interest in learning. - Sometimes it is free. - Always instant and up to date.

The tendency of using E-learning as a standard information source has increased after the advent of smartphones and tablets, so that from this point of view it is having an increasingly positive impact on how we learn.