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The best way to predict the future is to create IT! (Peter Drucker)

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Job-satisfaction

•responsibility

•have fun•make money

What do we expect from a job?

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•Printing – 1455 Gutenberg printing press (spread knowledge – started science and

technology)

•Telephone Alexander Graham Bell 1876 radio, TV (reduced wars)

Responsibility

IT had impact!

•Internet

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•Old people, children

Future IT inventions?

GPS•Smaller prisons

IT will have impact!

+ phone +identification

•Free compute power•Open source software•Wikipedia/Wikibooks•Free education!!!

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IT – changes society

6M places neededIn the USA

40M infected3M deaths/year8B cost of petrol in USA

1T military spending/yearWaiting time? Theft, cost

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•60% growth in IT related jobs•Not many qualified people!

•13% more for Business and Management

Jobs: The next 10 years (USA)

What will all these people do?

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CEQ: The good teaching scale

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flexible

Industry:Advisory board,

interview, public speaking,

EXPO, Industrial year

IT Symposium

The right balance!employable

Competitors?

Strong Research:New ideas

Future conceptsFundamentals

Principles

Ready for the future!

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Just do ITat RMIT!!!

The best way to predict the future

is to create IT!