Business and Society

Impact of Technology on Society

· Choose two points from either "Technology Levels the Business Playing Field" or "The Social Impact of Technology" in the W6 Weekly Related Articles.

· Explain both points in your own words.

· What experiences or reasons caused you to select and agree or disagree with the two points?

Weekly Related Articles

Impact of Technology

According to the Small Business Administration, "small businesses represent 99.7 percent of all firms, they create more than half of the private nonfarm gross domestic product, and they create 60 to 80 percent of the net new jobs."

Technology's Influence on Society

Advances in technology, is generally not equitably shared within society.

Strategic Management of Technology Issues

Corporate leaders commit enormous sums to technology investment and often, despite reams of "business cases", on a hope and a prayer that this money will actually buy solutions to their problems.