{"id":133,"date":"2018-06-27T21:45:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b4ntu\/?p=133"},"modified":"2018-06-27T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T21:45:11","slug":"activity-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b4ntu\/2018\/06\/27\/activity-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Activity 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Increased reliance on technology\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With increase in modernization and growth in every sector people are developing and so the way of using technology which is indeed important from the aspect of development. As, this new era is all about saving time and making a lot within lesser time and not only in public but private sectors are using this technology. The dramatic increase of technology have been observed in communication and transacting businesses.<\/p>\n<p>In context of communication we have been shifted from telegrams to mobile phones and fax through which work can be done in matter of few seconds. As, in context of United states and Canada postal service there are a lot of new advancements have been taken place as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Billing procedure has been made online. So, the use of paper and keeping invoices safely for further return policies are reduced.<\/li>\n<li>Online transactions through linked bank accounts is an efficient step for paying out the bills.<\/li>\n<li>Effective and fast transportation with communication with postal code improved the delivery of products to the right owners.<\/li>\n<li>Sorting of mail in offices was a cumbersome process earlier which got increased with use of sensitive machinery requiring less human skill and more robotic engineering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, Retail sectors have been affected through technology like Walmart in following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With growing use of internet, People are using online shopping more than retail but the demand of distribution centers got increased.<\/li>\n<li>Use of return policy earlier requires invoices on paper but with use of technology data is saved and can be used in later context.<\/li>\n<li>Automatic purchasing machines reduces need of workers at stores. Hence, Increasing a total profit of the organisation and also prevent customers from being in a cue for long and waiting for their turn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, These posses a negative impact too. With rise in cyber crime.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversunpodcasts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Websense-Canada-cybercrime-report-card.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for cyber crime in canada\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As, most of the transactions are made online and due to this fact people who are efficient or hacking expert may hack software and use to fill their pockets through that transaction. Few people are not very much interacted with modern technology due to their backgrounds which leads to insufficiency to use this means of technology and found it difficult. Sometimes, in remote areas customers remain abide from the use of new technology. In my context earlier I never used to prefer online shopping because it never told me how the product is mostly during clothes shopping but now with reviews and quality approved check it has made me possible to shop online. Have you ever been suffered from wrong product ? The product you have seen online but get a totally different one and how you respond to that situation ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increased reliance on technology\u00a0 With increase in modernization and growth in every sector people are developing and so the way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b4ntu\/2018\/06\/27\/activity-2-3\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Activity 2<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b4ntu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b4ntu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b4ntu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b4ntu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b4ntu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b4ntu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b4ntu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b4ntu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b4ntu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b4ntu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}