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Tomorrow’s Technology and You

A look at computerswith a different focus…

- “Know what?”- “So what?”- “Now what?”

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Tomorrow’s Technology and You

Chapter 1Our Digital Planet

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Objectives

What can we learn from computer history? How are computers used in modern life? So

what?What are some issues raised by our use of

computers in the present and in the future?

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Creating Communities on the Living Web(pp 3-4)

How old is the social networking phenomenon?So what?

How many people use Facebook?What are the benefits? downsides?

How is Facebook doing relative to MySpace?So what?

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1939: Konrad Zuse - Germanyfirst programmable digital computer No funding – why not?

1943: Alan Turing (UK)computer used by British – for what? ‘So what’?

What does Moore’s Law state?What are the consequences of this pace of change?

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Computers in Perspective: An Evolving Idea (pp 6-9)

What did Douglas Adams say about ‘reactions to technologies’?

So what?

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Objectives

What can we learn from computer history? How are computers used in modern life? So

what?What are some issues raised by our use of

computers in the present and in the future?

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Computers Today(pp 9 – 15)

Mainframes – Servers – Desktops/LaptopsAll networked – Client/Server relationship

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LAN

OtherLAN=s

DB

Mainframe

Internet ServerLAN Server

User

Where is your N: drive?-so what?

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Computers Today(pp 9 – 15)

Mainframes – Servers – Desktops/LaptopsAll networked – Client/Server relationship

PDA’s – Synonyms? Examples?Embedded – Examples?So what?

is Skype really better than your telephone?does your safety depend on an embedded computer?What can you do on your PC if the LAN is down?What other dependencies can you think of?

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Objectives

What can we learn from computer history? How are computers used in modern life? So

what?What are some issues raised by our use of

computers in the present and in the future?

© 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

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Social & Ethical Issues (pp 16-30)

Or ‘Ripples and Breakwaters’

Explain each of these issues, give an example, and describe the pros and cons. How can we profit by the first and minimize the second?

Collaborative computing - Web 2.0( pp16-19) Increasing dependence on complex technology

(pp 27-28)Threat to privacy, data security and intellectual

property (p25)Reliance on technology to solve problems

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