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IT & Your Life:
The Future Now
Definition: Information Technology
(IT) describes any technology that
helps to produce, manipulate, store,
communicate, and/or disseminate
information

◦ Part 1: Computer Technology

◦ Part 2: Communication Technology

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 How is IT being used in
Education?
99% universities in Majority of university
80% of students use
Pakistan have internet students own their
the internet for 4 or
access own computer
more hours per week

½ of professors in Distance Learning

universities require such as this is a prime
students to use email example of usage of IT
in their classes in education.

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Health: High Tech for Wellness

Telemedicine: Medical
care via 3D Computer models
Robots permit precise
telecommunications allow accurate tumor
microsurgery
lets doctors treat location inside a skull
patients from far away

Medical implants allow

Handheld computers stroke patients to Health websites
allow patients to directly control provide medical
measure blood sugar computers to talk for information
them.

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 Definition: Virtual means
something that is created,
simulated, or carried on by means
of a computer or a computer
network
Money: Cashless Virtual airline tickets
Society? Virtual money
◦ Online bill paying
◦ PayPal
◦ Electronic payroll deposit
◦ Micropayments for online music

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 Leisure: Infotech in
Entertainment & the Arts
Videogames
Downloading
◦ Movies
◦ Music
◦ eBooks

Most movies use computer animation

Digital editing

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 Jobs & Careers
Office careers: Budget, payroll, letter-writing, email

Teaching: Automated grading systems, emailing, distance teaching

Fashion: Sales/inventory control systems, ordering, personnel

Job-hunting:
◦ Use word processor to create resumes
◦ Post resumes online
◦ Online job searches

Question: Can anyone think of a career that does NOT require

computer skills?

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The Telephone Grows Up

1973 Today’s
First cellphone call cellphones:
•Are mobile
•Can take and send pictures
•Can connect to the internet
•Can send and receive text messages

Nokia estimates 2 billion mobile phone

subscribers

2006

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Internet, World Wide
Web, & Cyberspace
World Wide Web
◦ The multimedia part of the internet
◦ An interconnected system of servers that
support specially formatted documents in
multimedia form
◦ Includes text, still images, moving images,
sound
◦ Responsible for the growth and popularity of
the internet

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Internet, World Wide
Web, & Cyberspace
Cyberspace
◦ Term coined by William Gibson (1984)
◦ Cyberspace is "the notional environment in
which communication over computer networks
occurs."
◦ Described a advanced computer network people
“plugged” into directly with their brains
◦ Now means
◦ The web
◦ Chat rooms
◦ Online diaries (blogs)
◦ The wired and wireless communications world

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5 Computer Types
Supercomputers

• Priced from $1 million to $350 million

• High-capacity machines with thousands of processors
• Multi-user systems

Mainframe Computers

Workstations

Microcomputers

Microcontrollers

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5 Computer Types

Supercomputers

Mainframe Computers

• Until late 1960’s, the only computer available

• Cost $5,000 - $5 million
• Multi-user systems; accessed using a terminal
• Terminals only have a keyboard and monitor; can’t be used alone

Workstations

Microcomputers

Microcontrollers

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 Supercomputers

Mainframe Computers

Workstations
5 Computer • Introduced in early 1980s
• Expensive, powerful personal computers
Types • Used for scientific, mathematical,
engineering, computer-aided design (CAD),
computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
• A less-expensive alternative to mainframes

Microcomputers

Microcontrollers

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 Supercomputers

Mainframe Computers

Workstations

5 Computer
Microcomputers
Types
• Personal computers that cost Rs. 20,000 to
Rs. 200,000
• Used either stand-alone or in a network
• Types include desktop, tower, notebooks, or
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)

Microcontrollers

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 Supercomputers
Mainframe Computers
Workstations
Microcomputers
5 Computer Microcontrollers
Types ◦ Also called embedded computers
◦ Tiny, specialized microprocessors inside
appliances and automobiles
◦ They are in: microwaves, programmable
ovens, blood-pressure monitors, air bag
sensors, vibration sensors, MP3 players,
digital cameras, keyboards, car engine
controllers, etc.

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Servers

Are central computers

May be any of the 4 larger computer types.

Hold data (databases) and programs

“Server” describes a Connect to and supply services for clients
function Clients are other computers like PCs,
workstations, other devices

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Convergence, Portability, & Personalization

Computers
Convergence: the Consumer electronics

combination of Entertainment
Mass media

Portability

Collaboration: software People to share anything instantly

People to enhance the information as they
that allows forward it

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Future of Information Technology

3 directions of Computer 3 directions of Communications

Development Development
Smallness Connectivity
Speed Interactivity
Affordability Multimedia

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Summary

WHAT IS IT USAGE OF IT IN MEDIUM AND TYPES OF

DIFFERENT WALKS TECHNOLOGIES COMPUTERS
OF LIFE USED IN IT

FUTURE OF IT

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