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Current and Emerging Uses

of ICT

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Convergence in technology.

Improvements in hardware performance and storage capacity.

New types of technologies and their potential social impacts.

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Convergence of technologies

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Music storage

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Miniaturization

Improvements in manufacturing have meant that componentscan be made ever smaller and multiple components can be integrated into one another.

Miniaturization offer new solutions toold problems. For example, video cameras are now small enough to easily fit inside a capsule that can be swallowed. This offers doctors a new way of diagnosing diseases.

There are some limits on miniaturization, e.g., home computers can’t be so small that you can’t see the screen. However, by making components smaller, more hardware can be added to a single device.

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Tablet computing

New tablet devices like the Apple iPad or the HP Slate show another way that computing is evolving.

Touch-screen tablets may soonbecome widely used as web browsers, e-books readers, music centres and personal entertainment interfaces. One day they may even be widely used throughout schools.

Technology doesn’t always jump forward in leaps and bounds. The most significant inventions have often involved merging existing technologies, or finding ways of increasing access.

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