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Investigative analysis
Communication
Communication
The average person of this day and age take things like talking on the phone, texting and emailing for granted but where did this technology come from? This report will look at how communication technology has developed to what we have today. We will also investigate the impact it has on the environment, the harm it can cause to people who spend too much time using it and what the future of this technology may be.
If we go back around 100 years the most efficient way that people had to communicate with others a large distance away was sending hand written letter via the postal service which took a very, very long time, however the technology we have today has advanced to mobile phone and computers which enable us to send text messages, emails, make phone calls and interact using social networking site with people on the other side of the world in the matter of a few seconds.
This technology can be wonderful it has many benefits such as, it allows businesses to keep in touch with their employees, the normal everyday people to keep in touch with friends or family living a long way away and it also makes it possible for parents to know where their children are and make sure they are ok. So as we can see mobile phones and computers both have some good benefits but they also have negative aspects as well. Pollution caused by the production of computer hardware, as well as the cleaning agents used to clean computers, is a great hazard to the environment and the people that live in it. People leave their computers on 24/7 resulting in a lot of energy consumption. Another problem is the materials used to produce these mobile phones and computers, there are many valuable and dangerous minerals and materials in both mobile phones and computers the circuit board alone contains arsenic in chips made from gallium arsenide, antimony, beryllium, brominated flame retardants (can cause cancer) lead (we all know how dangerous lead can be), silver and more. The brominated flame retardants and the lead have the worst impact on the environment due to the high levels of toxins they contain. If we move on the LCD screen we can find more toxic substances such as mercury. The batteries on mobile phones also contribute greatly to environmental and health hazards, they contain cadmium, nickel, zinc, copper which can pose as a hazard to our health. The charges although they are not a large risk to our health they are a large wast that contain large amounts of copper and gold that when the phone is no longer being used they get thrown out. The plastic used on the exterior of computers and mobile phones is also quite dangerous they contain brominated flame retardants to reduce the risk of them catching fire however they can be dangerous to our health and can cause diseases such as cancer. Another large problem facing society today is that so many people spend so much of their time on computers and phones and are not doing their school work or doing the exercise needed to stay healthy or going to bed which is resulting in a bunch of uneducated, unhealthy tired generation.
So is there anything that is being done or can be done to fix these problems? Most people are aware that the government is always advising people to turn their computers along with other electrical devises off when they are not being used to prevent such a large waste of energy. Some schools have also made school sports compulsory to help solve the problem off not exercising and becoming unhealthy. Another thing that would be beneficial to solving these problems is recycling phones although this does not get rid of the toxic substances it does result in less of them being used which can only be beneficial to the environment and human kind. As for the problem of people spending time using these instead of going to bed at a reasonable hour it is really up to them to fix if it is children parents may confiscate them at night and if it is adults they need to manage their time better.
Although these problems are prominent today they may not be in the future. There are scientist and computer manufactures that are currently working on creating computers and communicating devices that use less energy and also are lighter and more portable so they can be used while moving helping to eradicate the problem of wasting energy and not doing any exercise. There are also manufactures currently working on a foil display system for the screens of mobile phones which are said to be more environmentally and health friendly.
So as we can see technology of communication has developed quite a lot over the years. It has benefited society greatly making it easier to get into contact with others but has also created quite a few problems in society. However these problems are either fixable or controllable and in the future we could quite possibly see technology that helps to lesson or remove these problems.
The graph above shows which parts of phones and computers do the most damage to the environment and people.
How obesity has increased over the years
From the graph above we can see that as the years go by and the technology increases so does obesity.
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