Maps & Networks - How Technology Is Beneficial To Society

I made a quick list of the advantages of technology in our society today. 


Convenience 
  • Faster processes such as deliveries i.e. Amazon
  • Organization of large systems 

Crime prediction 
  • More effective crime solving methods
  • DNA testing and analyzing
  • Tracking
  • Uncovering deleted files  
  • Cyber crime being solved 

Entertainment 
  • Better movies 
  • More movies
  • Technology allowing people to be more creative with their hobbies such as photography, sowing, music etc 
  • Physical entertainment such as Lazor tag, indoor snowzones, light shows

Job creation 
  • IT jobs 
  • work related tasks running smoother
  • Desk jobs 
  • Information 

Education 
  • More accurate information 
  • More information 
  • The internet 
  • Being able to choose a career path that is related to a technical field 

Global communication 
  • Emergency help can be deployed quicker
  • Decisions made quicker
  • Information spread faster such as the Paris Attacks information spread quickly
  • Being able to keep in touch with friends in different countries
  • Being able to have the information to understand different cultures 

Travel 
  • Faster traveling systems
  • GPS accurate finding of places  
  • Different modes of transport used effectively for your preferences 

Better health care 
  • Improved technologies for surgeries
  • Minimalising the impact of in depth and brutal surgeries
  • MRI and CAT scanning, being able to detect issues quicker 
  • Systems allowing more people to be treated faster 
  • Logging of diseases or virus' give information on how things spread and how they can be treated and prevented

Giving people a voice i.e. better goods, reviews, empowering people who would not have a voice usually, better systems

  • Reviewing products allows for things which are wrong to be corrected 
  • People giving their feedback of systems such as transport, governing systems and health care allowing a change to be made and improved on

Equality - a space for people to campaign change


  • Malala Yousafzai 
  • Social media 
  • Giving information to people who wouldn't know otherwise


  • Predicting and avoiding catastrophes i.e weather, earthquakes 

    Connection

    • Online dating
    • Social media 
    • emailing/messaging across the world 
    • Sharing your location
    • transport 
    • online communities based around shared ideas, interests and issues 


    Now I have the benefits put down into a list I can start to form a narrative around how to present these ideas within my animation. 





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