Advantages of ICT
1. Periodicals: Advantages of periodicals are as follows :-
(i) These are the mirrors of the current political, economic, technical, social and other scenarios of the nation, region or world.
(ii) These are very costly (the price of a good magazine starts at Rs. 50 a piece);
(iii) These are available at cheap rates if the subscription mode is adopted by the reader (many magazine publishers are offering freebies too); and
(iv) These are full of information that can be used.
2. Newspaper: Advantages of newspapers are as follows :-
(i) These have multiple (secular) content;
(ii) These can be read by individual without distractions (introvert people love them) (iii) They consume tonnes of paper;
(iii) They give flexibility of publication to the publishers;
(iv) They are a lucrative business in every nook and corner of the globe; and
(v) They are cheap, at least in the developing countries of the world.
3. T.V. and Radios: Following are the advantages of TV and Radios.
(i) They give latest sets information to the audiences;
(ii) They entertain par excellence (TV is a paragon of entertainment the world over);
(iii) They are cheap
(iv) They are passive media (you can use them even while eating popcorn);
(v) They can effect healthy changes, especially in the contexts of community medicine, education, national polity, environment, ecology, dogma removal etc.); and
(vi) They are dynamic in the sense that new content is disseminated through them almost every fortnight.
3. Computers: Advantages of computers are as follows
(i) It has high speed
All the operations in a computer are caused by electrical pulses. ·We all know that electricity travels at the speed of fight, computers too can perform innumerable operations in just 1 sec. The processing speed of a computer is generally measured in nanoseconds.By the time an average person takes to read the contents of this page, the earliest model of the IBM microcomputer would add together a million numbers and still have some time to spare. You can imagine what would be the speed of the latest models of computers running 100 times faster.
(ii) It has large storage capacity
Computers have very large storage capacity. The contents of around two hundred sheets of A4 size paper can be stored on a small floppy disk, which is not even half the size of one sheet of paper. What would typically need large storage cabinets can be stored on a small floppy disk, which is not even half the size of a lunch box. Famous reference works like the “Encyclopedia Brittanica” and “Oxford Dictionary of English” occupies many large shelves in library. But today, they are stored in optical disks that are less in both size and weight. While this in itself is impressive, computers also provide very quick and easy access to all the data.
Apart from storing text, today’s computers are also capable of storing picture and sound in digital form, which means that even movies and music can be stored and sent to places quickly in the form of CD.
(iii) Its Accuracy
Computers have many check circuits built in and so normally they do not make mistakes. Errors in computing are generally due to human negligence rather than technological faults. We have to always remember the fact that a computer is unintelligent and has to be given precise instructions and correct data to carry out its operations. If the instruction is faulty or might mean more than one thing or if the data is wrong, the result coming out of the computer too would be wrong. This phenomenon of wrong output due to wrong input of instructions and / or data is termed as Garbage In Garbage In Garbage Out or GIGO in computer jargon.
(iv) Its Diligence
Computers, being machines, do not suffer from fatigue and lack of concentration. If five million calculations have to be performed, a computer can perform the 5 million calculation with same accuracy and speed as it performed the first calculation.
(v) Its Versatility. Computers can perform a wide range of jobs with speed, accuracy and diligence. In an organisation, it is quite likely that the same computers are used for diverse purposes such as accounting, generating pay-slips, keeping track of manager’s appointments, play games during the recreation hours.
5. Movies: Following advantages of movies are considerable.
(i) They entertain the masses;
(ii) They educate them;
(iii) They make them patriots; and
(iv) They give them reprieve (a pleasant escape) from realities of life.