Is the Philippines technologically updated?

          The capacity of the people to adapt has led development in many nations. Our ability to keep up with the major changes in technology has helped our ways of living. The Philippines is one of the many nations involved in this technological advancement. Technological advancement in the Philippines does not necessarily threaten people's jobs or employment, except for those who are not educated enough to catch up with the advancement as technology requires some kind of specialization. We have encountered telephones, mobiles, radios, televisions, the internet, broadcasting stations, SMS services, etc. The presence of these has urbanized a lot of provinces and towns in the Philippines, though some are exempt. So what is the real deal with the Philippines and its technological advancement?

          The present-day technologies play a major role in the development of our country. Some of these advancements are the automation/computerization of government processes and advances in telecommunication. The automation includes fingerprint scanning for elections, applications for NSO certificates online and applications for passports/visas which were made faster and more convenient. Advances in computers and telecoms have allowed foreign companies to outsource transcription jobs & call centers and have allowed electronic money transfer. The advances are also allowing scientific researches in the Philippines access to their colleagues from other countries and at the same time, makes up-to-date information available to the public. Though, there are some places that technology has not improved much yet such as agriculture, certain government bureaucracies and infrastructures. Filipino farmers are not competitive because of lack of technology and a large number of procedures in the government are not automated such as records, making retrieval difficult.

          The continuous process of technological evolution has improved the flow of daily work. Like all obvious things, it has pros and cons. The pros being the development and easier approach to work, and the cons being the extinction of human to human interaction and interpersonal communication. An uprise in the global civilization has brought a commotion. The path towards our future has gone up a sharp curve. Our future is a certain thing, but what it is, we do not know. For me it's definitely a yes - the Philippines is technologically updated.