Beneficial and Harmful Effects | Tucker’s Blog

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Beneficial and Harmful Effects | Tucker’s Blog

While computing innovations are typically designed to achieve a specific purpose, they may have unintended consequences. Benifical and Harmful Effects Team Teach.

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Computing Innovation benefits

• Improved medical innovation s
• Increased efficiency in work and businesses (economic)
• More education innovation
• Communication innovation

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Computing Innovations harmful effects

• Loss of Privacy + misuse of private info
• Unnecessary dependence on technology
• Job displacement, economic hardship
• Other unintended consequences

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Computing Innovation examples

• Accelerometer usage in phones and automobiles
• Drones for deliveries and photography
• Internet evolution from scientists transferring info to many people using it for hours daily

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Additional negative effects (microtransactions and other)

• Dopamine feedback loops --> addiction, negative effects on mental health
• Potential sleep deprivation, depression, and anxiety