Computers and the World ppt1

Intro to Computers

The Information Age

• period in human history characterized by shift from traditional economy and technologies of the Industrial Revolution to an economy based on information technologies

Today Technology?

good or bad? both

Advantages of todays technology

• easy for an individuals voice to be heard

• information available

• empowered with smartphones

Disadvantages of todays technology

• no privacy

• government tracks individuals

• misinformation

The Digital Divide

• gap between access and understanding of internet and technology

  • income, education, race, gender, etc

• leads to economic and social inequality and prevents us from using our mind to solve problems

Technology Impacts Society

• redefining fundamental parts of our social makeup

  • how we connect with others

  • how we purchase and consume products

  • how we think

Crowdsourcing

• process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from large group of people especially online community, rather than traditional employees or suppliers

Crowdfunding

• way/style of generating capital to start a business

• small donations/contributions from others

• eg. Kickstarter

Education

• course management

  • using courseware to communicate, coordinate, evaluate, and support leaning

    • D2L

• researching and citations

  • online resources, databases, reference organizers/builders

• computerized learning

  • khan academy

Collaborative Consumption

• technologically organized groups of people to use a product efficiently

De-skilling

• AI, efficiency, speed and accuracy replace humans

• leave only poorly paid jobs

Up-skilling

• job expectation expands to include technology skills

• doesnt necessarily come with increase in wages or status

Medicine

• modern biomed chip research

  • identifying people via personal ID chip

    • help keep Alzheimer’s patients safer

    • provides tamper proof security measures

Retail computerized

• POS- point of sale terminals linked directly to inventory

  • 36% of people use self checkout

• Data-mining

  • process of searching through and analyzing huge amounts of data to find patterns that can be utilized

    • “May also like…”

Business and Tech

• Automated Offices

  • business offices that systematically use powers of personal computers and network to revolutionize work

• Enterprise computing

  • organization of entire business using computers and networks, includes role, hardware, software, and data

• Telecommuting “electronic cottage”

  • allows workers to work from home

Near Future Technologies

• Advanced simulations

  • mimic real world, weather forecasting, archeology mapping

• Augmented reality

  • digital devices add an additional layer of digital information

• Affective computing

  • computers recognize, respond to and demonstrate emotions to better motivate us

• Artificial Intelligence

  • computers making decisions for us