Indicate one field, other than computer science, which this innovation has impacted or has the potential to impact. In my video shown here I show a person discussing the impact of email from their point of view. The impact is even more profound in underdeveloped areas where people are more likely to communicate with government agencies when thry have email than if they only have access to regular mail. The access to quick one-to-many delivery has increased the amount of personal communication people have as compared to the era immediately preceeding the wide-spread use of email. The results are shown in the figure to the right - all of those polled said that over 90% of their personal communication is by email over traditional mail. I polled 10 college students asking what percentage of personal communication they do with email vs. A 2013 study concluded that email has achieved 92% replacement of written letters as a means of personal communication. People rarely write letters to each other, instead choosing to send an email message. For instance, many people have all bills and payments that used to be delivered through tradional mail now delivered 'paperlessly' through email. It has drastically reduced the use of tradional mail. Explain the impact that the innovation has had on society, economy, and/or culture.Įmail has had a profound impact on society through how humans communicate. A second harmful impact can be on personal privacy because due to the fact that email is naturally archived, private communication can be available for others who may gain access to the email (see detail in my answer to Question H).Ĭ. The chart on the left shows the spam attempted delivery to the account of an employee at a major U.S. Spamming can harm communication by clouding worthy communication with a vast amount of unwanted communication. One harmful effect of email is the ease at which it can be mis-used in ways such as spamming. It is faster, less expensive, more convenient than traditional mail delivery. One-to-many means that email is designed to be delivered from one sender to many recipients - again more naturally than text and messaging applications support. Archived means that email naturally saved by email servers and email clients for later use in a way that is typically more organized and robust than other forms of electronic communcation, like texting and instant messages. Standard means that it is based on an international standard, SMTP, so that email send from any email client application in any language anywhere in the world will be delivered to any other email client. The benefit of email is that it provides people with standard, archived, one-to-many electronic communication.

Explain a benefit and/or harmful effect of the innovation.

How can innovation affect ways of life