Advancement is inevitable for each generation as long as there is someone thinking about progress. Just a few decades ago computers were just in their beginning stages and today computer science – computer engineering are one of the most desired majors (— impacted at UCSD—)
Computers have been changing lives – even saving lives, all around us. From being used in the field of medicine for synthesis and trials of new possible cures, storing impeccable amounts of data for use be organizations, being the basis of research to being used in child development programs, home appliances and simply comfort technology – the development of computing is shaping both innovative and social circles.
I recently realized exactly how diverse you can get when my roommate started working as a research assistant for a professor of Bioengineering at UCSD. Although the research is primarily based around protein synthesis – she has to be computing a lot as there is specific program that is an integral part of the synthesis procedure and working on debugging it the first part of her job.
However, as it gets easier to transfer information, it also gets easier to obtain information – and this is where I fear the sheer power of computing overshadows its use for good. And technology increases – there will always be a concern in the department of security, privacy and containment of information. The FBI Annual Report for 2012 states that the total complaints received: 289,874 and total loss was approximately – $525,441,110.00. Another thing that struck me a few years ago was the infamous Murdoch phone taping scandal. These facts only go to tell us that even though computing is such an enormous boon- when used wrong, it is easy to turn it all the way around
Sources :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal
http://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2012_IC3Report.pdf
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/cyber
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2236593/?page=6
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