Abstract
A computer is an important device for managing huge data. The introduction of computers, therefore, has improved the level of service delivery and thus enhances convenience and comfort. This has also helped governments to achieve economic benefits.
Use and Benefit of Computer
The computer is a scientific device that accepts log-in information and thereafter manipulates it to produce the desired result based on the program of instruction on how data is to be processed. Computer technology has been around for hundreds of years, “for instance during the 17th century, Blaise Pascal invented the adding machine that operated as a digital calculator, but was only made up of mechanical gears, levers and counting wheels.” (Garson 1999, p, 43)
The uses and benefits of computers are diverse and paramount for socio-economic development. Public administration offices were known for the mismanagement of public information. With the invention of the computer, today there is improved safety with the information in both public and private hands. This is therefore restoring the public trust in the ability of institutions to handle sensitive information.
Next, organizations and public offices are known to handle a large volume of data, have been salvaged from huge workloads by the introduction of computers. Such large amounts of information include; benefit data like pensions, unemployment benefits, and other social services. Today, the huge crowd that used to gather by the government offices has considerably reduced.
Another benefit accruing from the introduction of computers is the ability of the world to manage networks of communication. This has greatly improved the level of interaction of the world. Thus fostering friendship and economic improvements. This in conjunction with the world wide web and other internet services promotes globalization thereby making the world to be like a village.
Before the introduction of computers, productivity and efficiency particularly in the government sector were questionable. Like a tortoise, many organizations and government institutions crumpled to beat deadlines yet it was never easy. Garsen shares the same sentiment when he says that, “Citizen and businesses increasingly demanded that governments programs made sense and worked efficiently. They began to expect better levels of services instead of the fragmented, duplicative and lengthy processes that had come to characterize government operations.’ (Garson, 1999, p.44)
As the discussion come to an end, the introduction of computer has availed a bundle of devices that promote luxuriant living. These promote individual comfort and convenience. For instance, the barcoding machine has enabled instant register pricing, updating of stock levels, and recording personal buying patterns. Not forgetting devices such s the use of ATM – machines; GPs machines; internet connecting for shopping, education, and productivity; and office network and robotic transforming the workplace and productivity.
Despite the many uses and benefits the world has gained from this introduction of the computer, there are still a number of challenges that threaten strain and strangle its importance. One of the challenges is the lack of basic support systems. For example, “most clinicians continue to practice, “memory-based medicine with inexplicably wide variances diagnosis, treatment, and outcome”(Ceruzi 2003, p,40)
The introduction of the computer has therefore come with a great array of uses and benefits. This is a great invention to transform the world. Even though challenges threaten to bottle-neck its importance, restructuring of the organization will afford its success.
References
Ceruzz, (2003f). A History of Modern computing.Londo:MIT press.
Garson G.D. (1999) Information Technology and Computer Application: USA: Idea Group Publishing.