Do you agree that access to technology such as computer and the internet makes you more successful in future?

Question

Educated people,higher income families,upper class neighborhood,individual without disabilities. Statistic shows that people in in these groups have more access to technology than uneducated people,lower income families,middle class neighborhood and individual with disabilities. one study claims that those with less access to technology are at least a generation behind with respect to education. Another study claims that those with less access to technology are less successful.

Answer 1

Agree somewhat...but with reservations: The groups you cite, one would expect, are generally more aware of trends and tools that supposedly can make their lives easier or better (though much one sees on the Internet, for example, is silly, crazy, or just a plain old waste of time), and because of their income, they are more likely to try new gadgets and so on (not because they instantaneously see that it will be convenient, or whatever, but because if it turns out to be a waste of their time and money, they won't be as upset over it as someone who had to scrimp and save "forever"). The use of new technologies doesn't presuppose that their acceptance and use made the groups you cite successful in the first place. (That often is just a matter of good old-fashioned values such as working hard, studying hard and not wasting what one earns---the wealthy are firm believers in these values and the concept of deferred gratification, thus they don't waste money when they shouldn't.)
I do think, though, that there's a somewhat silly tendency in some people to over-emphasize the importance of new technologies, and consequently they add to the misapplication of it and, consequently, to the resistance to its acceptance (use of it just to be using it just to show they can use it---if that sounds silly, then ask any teacher who has had to attend one unproductive technology inservice after another). That is not to say that after the hubbub dies down that people don't play around with new applications, formats, and so on just to see if they can make use of it. Fortunately or not, much of what people learn to do on the computer is self-taught. Again using inservices as an example, no one wants to listen and try to follow someone else "explaining" something in a manner such as "click on this, then click on that then double-click this, then scroll to that, then copy this, then... and you're done," all rattled off in three seconds.
I had to learn word processing that way simply because those who already knew it, would not take the time to explain it properly. Yes, I agree that for a writer, especially, word processing is by far much better (faster and more convenient for editing as one writes) than using a typewriter! But in the case of writing, it's more likely to be the quality of what one writes than the tools with which it was written that makes the writer a success.
Technology is just a tool. You can use it to goof around with, or to do something serious and productive. A good education (which would now definitely include technology) and the aforementioned values are the keys to success. As far as the technology making you a sucess, look at it this way: If your boss says that such and such project should be done and presented only by computer and you do it entirely on a note pad, then you're not going to be very successful in that case. You just have to follow what the current trends are and what those who pay your salary want.
Lots of people learn computer skills, but do nothing with them (it's the doing nothing that impacts the degree of success). I know computer engineers who are out of work, but won't build web pages to earn a living. Likewise, I know people who know little about web design who have made lots of money from rather crude looking web sites.

Answer 2

access to technology does not make one more successful automatically, it merely provides help along the way. I know plenty of people with the latest and greatest tech-wise, but heck, they're fairly dumb.
Technology is just one more tool in the journey that is success.

Answer 3

Yes

Answer 4

yup, since the future is now based on new technology and gadgets. to succeed in the future, one must have the know-how on these things.

Answer 5

get right of entry to to a working laptop or pc and information superhighway ability get right of entry to to a great shared expertise base. expertise makes you efficient. As long of course you be responsive to what do to with it and the place to seek for it.