It is commonly known that technology has a significant impact on our society. This text is about the influence of IT, short for information technology, in different areas. I will use four extracts from different articles about the “paperless office”, and one article about “Technology enhanced learning”, to look at two highly different social aspects of IT.
According to G. Button and W. Sharrock, the “paperless office has not materialized” yet, because of the ongoing importance of paper in offices. Z. Liu seconds that, saying that many people prefer to work with papers before digital articles. J. Harrington goes more into detail in his article. He reports, that the improved technology resulted in an increase of paper use due to how it became easier to print documents. Z. Liu even recites a study from Sciadas, which says that the “worldwide consumption of paper […] more than doubled”  from 1996 to 2006. Harrington also highlights the advantages of paper, naming the portability, the possibility to mark the documents and the legibility as such.
Looking at education as another important domain of IT, I used an article written by G.P. Sun in 2018. He debates about the use of “Technology enhanced learning” (TeL), also called “eLearning”. As said by him, eLearning is not necessarily needed if the class already works well without it. He names skilled teachers and fully engaged students as criteria for said well working classroom. According to him, TeL is needed if teacher want to give their students the possibility to get access to educational content before, during or after class. On the word of Sun, said Technology enhanced learning extends the physical classroom.
As one can see by those two examples from our usual daily life, IT has a huge impact on our society. But then, both cases also prove that technology cannot replace the former media completely in every case. On the contrary, a better technology can even increase the use of  what it tried to replace, as one can see in the example of a “paperless office”.