Transcript Current_and_Emerging_Uses_of_ICT

Current and
Emerging Uses
of ICT
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This lesson will cover:
Convergence in technology.
Improvements in hardware performance and
storage capacity.
New types of technologies and their potential
social impacts.
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The potential of technology
Look at this promotional video for
Microsoft Surface.
What areas of our lives does it
show technology being used in?
What aspects of our lives might
technology change in the future?
In groups, or on your own, spend five to ten minutes writing
down the key advances in technology that have changed the
world over the past ten years. Then try and write down what
developments you think technology will bring in the future.
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Convergence of technologies
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Music storage
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Miniaturization
Improvements in manufacturing have meant that components
can be made ever smaller and multiple components can be
integrated into one another.
Miniaturization offers new solutions
to old 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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Mobiles
There are now over 75 million mobile phones in
use in the UK. This is a lot when you consider
that the UK’s population is around 62 million.
It is estimated that by the age of 25, the
average person will have spent approximately
10,000 hours using a mobile phone.
Smart phones have created a whole
new industry of personal computing
and sales are rapidly increasing. More
people now want powerful computing
with the benefits of compact portability.
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Mobile phones
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Tablet computing
New tablet devices like the Apple iPad
or the Dell Streak are other examples
of the way that computing is evolving.
Touch-screen tablets may soon
become widely used as web
browsers, e-book readers, music
centres and personal entertainment
interfaces. One day they may even
be widely used in 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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Internet and e-mail
The Internet has been around for about 50 years, but
the public only really started to use it in the early 1990s.
In 2009 there were over 1.7 billion users – around a
quarter of the world’s population.
Approximately £43.8 billion is
estimated to have been spent
online in the UK in 2008, and this
figure is increasing by around
20% each year. A recent estimate
suggested that 210 billion e-mails
are sent each day. That’s 2.5
million e-mails every second.
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Social networking
Social networking covers a variety of technologies used to
communicate with other people.
MySpace, Facebook and other web applications are used by
millions of people to keep in touch with friends and family.
These sites make it easy to post text,
photos, music and videos. They also
allow artists to release work without
having a publishing contract.
However many people argue that
social networks are having negative
effects on our online privacy.
Have you used these sites?
Do you think they are a good use of the Internet?
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Current technologies at work
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What’s your opinion?
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Quiz
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