Transcript Boardworks ICT Customer Club Spring 2010

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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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 offer 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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Tablet computing
New tablet devices like the Apple
iPad or the HP Slate show another
way that computing is evolving.
Touch-screen tablets may soon
become 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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What’s your opinion?
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