Information Technology and Society2 The information era brings to being the dawn of a technical age, an epoch where data and technologically formed substances start to supplant the Industrial Age products. It is an era where information is quite significant constituent of the society and created the basis for the start and creation of products and services. In the past, the society and businesses were managed quite differently from how things are in the present day (Volti). People in the past, managed their lives in the old fashioned way by physically meeting in the back stops and other places, but now just meet easily using social networks. The information technology has transformed how people related with one another. The materials that were used by the new technology has transformed from the thick rubber for the mobile phones to the application of just a touch of the screen. Pictures have changed from the normal plastics and glasses to the application of technological tools. The past form of technology that was used involved heavy facilities and insensitive screens to the use of sensitive high definition LCD screens. The advancement of global networks making way for data, voice, video and movement using wire and wireless grids brought about the advancement of a society that is based on the information. Cheap facilities brought about the access to this grid by a number of people. The information era has made it possible for people to acquire multi-media access to a number of areas making it possible to be in constant interaction, entertainment and locator facilities. Smart facilities to supplant conventional arrangements, making it possible to customize a number of areas, furniture, interiors and cars; however these transformations were majorly cosmetic. Embedded video has grown to be common in a number of substances and LED circuits changed the industrial Age lighting and display technologies. The importance and imminence of information has brought about opportunity and risks for the information era in societies. This technology which has the ability to acquire and display obscure information has advanced extensive profiles of people. People are able to interact with a large number of people on the web without physically meeting them. This is made possible by the wide range of devices that are now internet enabled. The web social services like Facebook; MySpace among others has acquired a large number of following from the public hitting as the second most used internet site behind Google. These sites are quickly changing and gaining prominence amongst the youth and the elderly. This information era has captured the good and not failed similarly to capture the bad, a number of people are always glued to their technological devices. This tendency takes away the meaning to real life. We ought to assess the social meaning concerning the affects and effects of technology and the web on the society; what is stands for in application and understanding of the emerging technologies. These technologies influence us so that we are able to be of use to ourselves and see way ahead of the predictable assertion that the society has become mediatized. We may hence be able to get a better understanding of how the society is and how it is impacted. With the high numbers of new technologies coming into being each and every day, every person has to get acquainted to these new technologies, they have to educate themselves. This makes it to be quite demanding and keeps one on toes. It has redeveloped the world and the society a whole bring about efficiency and competition while care has to be taken concerning on the influences it comes with. Work Cited Volti R. Society and Technological Change. 6 ed. Worth Publishers, Madison Ave, New York, n.d. print.