Boon means blessing or advantage. Curse means solemn invocation of divine wrath upon a person or thing. Here the positive and negative impact of the computer on students is the issue of concern.
Computer-A computer is a programmable machine designed to automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logic operations. Boon means blessing.
The first computer was developed by Charles Babbage. It was called the Differential and Analytical Engine and was a huge 2 tone machine, which was told what to do by punched cards.
The ability to connect to the Internet is a tremendous blessing to the computer. The computer allows us to have access to huge information. Computers can store a huge amount of data. They can process it in a fraction of a second. They can manipulate it to give our expected analysis result. The computer in today's time penetrated every facet of our lives. Home, schools, hospitals, banks, transportation system, airlines, shopping centers, and industry are completely depending on the computer. Its functioning can not be thought without a computer. We can more easily research almost any topic that you can think of. It is due to the computer's ability over speed, perfection, large capacity of data storage, huge efficiencies of data processing and data recovery at lightening speed. These parameters have ruled out the error of the human mind of any business. It has resulted in a high per capita return. In this sense, the computer is a tremendous blessing for us.
But there is also a negative side to this blessing. With the spelling check we become much less interested in learning to spell. With the grammar check we find that it is less demanding to learn the correct use of grammar. With the ability to develop and access huge databases of information, we find ourselves lazy in learning and remembering things. We are using the computer to also remind ourselves about the daily work that is reducing our memory energy. These are our mistakes. But there are also computer support elements. If we assume that electricity shuts down, our lives will stop. One thing about Y2K scare that required huge investment to eradicate the Y2K problem. If the satellites stopped working, then we will be blind.