| Information technology, or IT, as it's more commonly | | | | technological era we're living in is changing so fast |
| known, sounds technical, difficult, and evolving. But | | | | that if you stay away from it for a few months, you |
| actually, it's just systems for storing and retrieving | | | | could find yourself in a steep learning curve just to |
| information. Of course there is a technical aspect to it | | | | catch up where you left off a short time ago. Think |
| all which includes all the nuts and bolts of computer | | | | about it for a second. I went on a 3 week holiday |
| science along with design, development, installation, | | | | last year and when I returned to work, they had |
| and of course, implementation of such systems, but | | | | replaced the computers, the network, and all the |
| as an end user, all we need to know is where and | | | | software that I'd become so familiar with. Being on |
| how to obtain that data. | | | | holiday, meant I missed the training sessions and had |
| I once heard a lecture from a very wise old | | | | to scratch around reading emails, manuals and |
| academic, and he said that being smart is not about | | | | pestering work colleges just so I could get back up |
| knowing it all. Being smart is about knowing where to | | | | to speed. |
| get the information you require, and at that time this | | | | Those ladies taking time out for maternity leave |
| was restricted to reference books, filing systems, | | | | often have the hardest jobs adapting to information |
| and other people who knew what you wanted to | | | | technology in the workplace. Not only have the |
| know. But nowadays, with the explosion of home | | | | systems and software likely to have changed or |
| computers, computer software, and of course, the | | | | updated during their absence, but the reeducation is |
| internet, there is practically no information that | | | | all the more harder as their minds are quite often |
| cannot be acquired quickly and efficiently from our | | | | thinking about their young ones back home without |
| very own finger tips. | | | | them for the first time since their birth. Even what |
| The entire field of information technology is vast | | | | used to be classified as 'unskilled' labor now finds the |
| beyond belief and it has created 1000's of jobs | | | | workers handling computers and peripherals to assist |
| where jobs never used to exist. Many would argue | | | | in their work. Another problem is for part time |
| that because of it, we have seen more losses in | | | | workers, as they have the hardest time of all |
| employment than gains, but I think that with any | | | | keeping up with the latest developments. |
| major changes to the employment structure, there | | | | But like it or loath it, information technology is here to |
| will always 2 steps back in order to take one step | | | | stay, and no matter who you are or what you do, |
| forward until the transition is complete. With the | | | | there will be times when you need to be in the |
| implementation of IT in the workplace, we now see | | | | know. IT seems to be touching every part of our |
| many more people sitting at desks with computers | | | | lives in the modern age. From shopping, to banking, |
| and keyboards than we do say folks out in the open | | | | job applications, to written communication. It's fast, |
| air swinging pickaxes. | | | | it's convenient, it's scary, and yes, it does have some |
| Despite all the benefits of information technology, it | | | | flaws, but with continued innovation, development |
| does have it's drawbacks in that it is constantly | | | | and implementation, it will settle down and it will no |
| evolving. Ok, so nothing stands still forever, but this | | | | longer be a topic for discussion but a way of life. |