The obvious advantages are the accessibility and instantaneousness of

information and availabiltiy for communication throughout the world. In

addition, so many other conveniences are provided by computers with the
vaious programs such as PowerPoint, office and accounting programs, etc.
Indeed, anyone who has had to type on typewriters knows the advantages
of putting one's term papers, etc. on a computer whose ease of corrections
and advantage of saving the paper is invaluable. And, with Tax Day only
briefly past, people have appreciated the ease of filing online.
However, along with these advancements of science comes the dilemma
expressed by Aldous Huxley as he examined what he called the
"advancement of science as it affects human individuals." He also
stated, "the really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the
external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings," For instance,
with email replacing the hand-written letter, or even the telephone call, and
with love affairs being conducted across the internet, there seems a
dehumanizing of people. Also, with information so easily posted and
available, there can be a loss of privacy and identity. In addition, with the
plethora of information available there is both the dilemma of sorting what
is accurate from what is not reliable as well as the propensity of people,
especially those of the "computer age" to readily believe what they read on
the internet without analysis or critical thought of any kind. This tendency
no longer to think for oneself is what can effect the "revolutionary
revolution" to which Huxley alludes.
Computers allow us to talk to anyone in the world. I think that is both an
advantage and a disadvantage. Computers also allow us to work from
home legitimately. There are disadvantages to that as well. When you work
from home, you can become rather lonely.
Computers today are becoming as important part of our lives as pen and
paper were about fifty years ago. There can be no denying that this is

because of many benefits we get from using computers. The many

advantages of computers include:
1.

Computers hve made lot of computational and clerical work easy.

2.

Computers have made many tasks of modern life like buying and
banking more convenient. We can shop and bank from our homes any time
of the day and night.

3.

Computers has given easy access to lot of useful information through

the Internet.

4.

Computers have made it easy for us to communicate and keep in

touch with others.

5.

Computers have made available to us many new form of

entertainment like computer games.
However use of computer has some disadvantages also. These include:

1.

In spite of continuously reducing prices, computers are still costly as

compared to the pen and pencil they replaced.

2.

Use of computers require additional efforts in form of developing

software and learning to use computers.

3.

Once an application on computer is developed and implemented, it

becomes difficult to make even minor modification.

4.

Excessive use of computer for communication and keeping in touch

with others threatens to reduce the intensity of personal bond that often
develops between people.

Software
- is the collection of instructions, Programming or coding, which we can only see,
Feel or can imagineabout its logic. Software gives "intelligence" to the computer.

Some examples are;

System Software has direct control and access to your computer hardware, and
memory locations. They perform I/O operations on variousmemory locations, and
control the hardware, to make the application software do a task. Operating
system,are the main examples for system software. Examples are;
Microsoft Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, DOS, BIOSSoftware, HD Sector
Boot Software, Device Driver Software i.e. Graphics Driver etc., Linker Software,
Assembler andCompiler Software,

Application software - run under System Software, and are made to do a

specific task i.e. (Word Processing etc),
which have indirect access to the hardware (i.e. Behind System Software).
Examples are; Opera (WebBrowser), Microsoft Word (Word Processing),
Microsoft Excel (Spreadsheet software), MySQL (DatabaseSoftware), Microsoft
PowerPoint (Presentation Software),iTunes (Music / Sound Software), VLC Media
Player(Audio / Video Software ), World of Warcraft (Game Software), Adobe
Photoshop (Graphics Software)

Hardware
- is the Physical component of the Computer system, which we can touch. All
physical parts of thecomputer (or everything that we can touch) are known
as Hardware. Examples are;

Keyboard, Imagescanner, Microphone, Pointing device, Graphics tablet, Joystick,

Light pen, Mouse, Pointing stick, Touchpad, Touchscreen, Trackball, Webcam,
Soft cam, Monitor, Printer, Speakers, Plotter.

People ware
- is the user that interfaces between the computer hardware or computer software.
It is personwho operates the computer.