Advantages:
(1) Promote economic growth. Popularizing information technology in the production field can improve working conditions, expand production capacity, improve product quality and increase economic benefits. The development of information technology can also improve market efficiency, expand the market and promote the formation of the global market.
(2) It is conducive to the transformation of traditional industries. Through information technology, we can transform traditional industries and accelerate the upgrading of traditional products. It can also make the development of traditional industries show international characteristics, and at the same time bring about changes in the traditional economic organization structure.
(3) It is conducive to the realization of sustainable economic development. Sustainable development is mainly manifested in the benign development of environment, population and natural resources. Information technology plays an active role in managing and improving the environment, population and resources.
(4) It is beneficial to the prosperity of information industry and information economy. On the one hand, the industrialization of information technology has promoted a series of drastic changes in the industrial structure, created favorable conditions for global economic integration, and promoted the informationization process of the national economy and society; On the other hand, the large-scale application of information technology has greatly promoted the development of productive forces, led to the prosperity of information industry and information economy, and finally made mankind step into the information society marked by information economy.
Disadvantages:
Information crimes are getting worse. Only in western countries, computer crimes, including computer viruses, increase by 20% every year. This fact shows that there is a sharp contradiction between information enjoyment and information security. In order to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the country and individuals and protect valuable information from infringement, people have adopted encryption technology and decryption technology for computer systems and communication systems.