Strength of analogue in the digitalized world

Upload: 27 January 2019, Last update: 17 June 2019

As technology develops, our life is getting digitalized. Computer literacy is necessary for each of us now. Workers manage documents by computer, students make essays on laptop, and so on. However, there’s threat of cyberattack and being stolen information.

For example, we would see many news of cyberattack into the government data base or other confidential data sources in the future. In our life level, right now banks are becoming paper-less. In Japan, people were using paper-bankbook, but now it is managed on the Internet. We can see out bank account on the web, in the meantime as it actually happened before[1], we have a risk of being scanned bank information. Previously, I remember Japan had a case that a web page identical to the actual bank website which was collecting bank-user information. And as another case, hackers attacked university servers and got personal information of university professors and students.

In the modern digitalized world, there’s always threat of cyberattack. Certainly technology would govern our world more and more, but the importance of analogue would still remain. Confidential information might be better to kept in safe in analogue because of no risk of cyber attack. I will not be surprised if in the future people return to analogue life again.

[1] As the following website warned, URL was sent by email which asks people to fill out their bank information to log in their bank account on the almost same website as the existing bank web. https://www.spread.or.jp/phishing/2016/08/29/2604/ Accessed 17 June 2019