Transcript The Contemporary Computer Age

Ed-Eng 106 – Technology in Language Education
The Contemporary
Computer Age
Computer Age is also known
as:
Information Age
 Digital Age
 New Media Age
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Age
When we talk about Computer
Revolution in the Contemporary age,
this matters alway confronts the picture
of the world today:
• Boundless Connectivity
• Fast and Wide Range of
Accessibility
• Multiple Tasking Management
• Time Efficiency
• Hyper Productivity
• MegaLibrary
• A Changing Reality
• Information Overdrive
• As the years pass by so quickly
Computers transformed and developed in
different forms (gadgets, appliances etc.)
to cater the needs of the advancing
worlds.
• Computers Change the Way we
Understand Reality.
• The use Computer is indeed a life
changing experience.
• Household of today without even a single
computers is considered primitive.
Five Generations of
Computer
First Generation (1940-1956)
Vacuum Tubes
First generation computers relied on
machine language, the lowest-level
programming language understood by
computers, to perform operations,
could only solve one problem at a time.
Input was based on punched cards and
paper tape, and output was displayed on
printouts.
First Generation (1940-1956)
Vacuum Tubes
• The UNIVAC and ENIAC computers are
examples of first-generation computing
devices.
First Generation (1940-1956)
Vacuum Tubes
•
UNIVAC (Universal Automatic
Computer)
First Generation (1940-1956)
Vacuum Tubes
• Eniac (Electronic Numerical
Integrator And Computer)
Second Generations (1956-1963)
Transistors
The transistor was far superior to the
vacuum tube, allowing computers to
become smaller, faster, cheaper, more
energy-efficient and more reliable than
their first-generation predecessors.
Though the transistor still generated a
great deal of heat that subjected the
computer to damage, it was a vast
improvement over the vacuum tube.
Second Generations (1956-1963)
Transistors
• Second-generation computers still relied
on punched cards for input and printouts
for output.
Third Generation (1964-1971)
Integrated Circuits
• The development of the integrated circuit
was the hallmark of the third generation of
computers.
• Transistors were miniaturized and placed
on silicon chips, called semiconductors,
which drastically increased the speed and
efficiency of computers.
Third Generation (1964-1971)
Integrated Circuits
• Instead of punched cards and printouts,
users interacted with third generation
computers through keyboards and
monitors and interfaced with an operating
system, which allowed the device to run
many different applications at one time
with a central program that monitored the
memory.
• Computers for the first time became
accessible to a mass audience because
they were smaller and cheaper than their
predecessors.
Fourth Generation(1971-Present)
Microprocessors
• thousands of integrated circuits were built
onto a single silicon chip.
• from desktop computers and into many
areas of life as more and more everyday
products began to use microprocessors.
• small computers became more powerful
Fourth Generation(1971-Present)
Microprocessors
• They could be linked together to form
networks which eventually led to the
development of the Internet.
• Fourth generation computers also saw the
development of GUIs, the mouse and
handheld devices.
Fifth Generation (Present and Beyond)
Artificial Intelligence
• still developing
• advance applications are
tantamount
• Parallel processing and
superconductors are
being utilize to create an
artificial intelligence a
reality
• the use of quantum
computing and molecular
nanotechnology is rapidly
changing the face of
modern computers.
Computer
Technology
has
become an integral part of our
everyday life. A separation of these
technical innovations would not come
without adverse effects.
Imagine the World
Without Internet!
Internet Users in the World
Sources: Internet World Stats http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
The Internet Big Picture
World Internet Users and Population Stats
Development to Computers
Top Ten Computer Trends for the
21st Century
According to Institute for Global Futures
Computers will become:
1. powerful extensions of human beings designed
to augment intelligence, learning,
communications, and productivity.
2. Intuitive—they will “learn,” “recognize,” and
“know” what we want, who we are, and even
what we desire.
Top Ten Computer Trends for the 21st
Century
According to Institute for Global Futures
3. Computer chips will be everywhere, and
they will become invisible-embedded in
everything from brains and hearts, to
clothes and toys.
4. Computers will manage essential global
systems, such as transportation and food
production, better than humans will.
Top Ten Computer Trends for the 21st
Century
According to Institute for Global Futures
5. Online computer resources will enable us
to download applications on-demand via
wireless access anywhere and anytime.
6. Computers will have digital sensesspeech, sight, smell, hearing-enabling
them to communicate with humans and
other machines.
Top Ten Computer Trends for the 21st
Century
According to Institute for Global Futures
7. Neural networks and other forms of
artificial intelligence will make computers
both as smart as humans, and smarter for
certain jobs.
8. Human and computer evolution will
converge. Synthetic intelligence will
greatly enhance the next generations of
humans.
Top Ten Computer Trends for the 21st
Century
According to Institute for Global Futures
9. Human and computer evolution will
converge. Synthetic intelligence will
greatly enhance the next generations of
humans.
10. As computers surpass humans in
intelligence, a new digital species and a
new culture will evolve that is parallel to
ours.
Challenges Brought by the
Computer Age
Humans are expected to do more
Diminishing Realistic Activities
Ubiquitous Connectivity
Instantaneous Access to Unlimited Stores of
Information
Skills and Knowledge Needed in a world
transformed by Technology
Humans are expected to do more than what
a computer can do.
REFERENCES
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Anonymous (updated 2010, May 14) The Five
Genration of Computers. retrieved January 3, 2014
fromhttp://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware
_Software/2002/FiveGenerations.asp.
Canton, James Ph.D (2013) Top Ten Computer Trends
in the 21st Century. Retrieved January 7, 2014 from
http://globalfuturist.com/about-igf/top-ten-trends/top-tencomputer-trends-for-the-21st-century.html