Living in the IT Era.pdf

Living in the IT Era Key Information and Characteristics 1. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Understanding the IT Era - Shift from analog and manual to digital methods...

Living in the IT Era Key Information and Characteristics 1. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Understanding the IT Era - Shift from analog and manual to digital methods of data storage. “IT Era” – Information Technology Era 2. GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY - Period in human history - Connected people and characterized by the widespread organizations worldwide. ADOPTION, INTEGRATION, and 3. DATA REVOLUTION IMPACT of Information - Massive generation, collection, and TEchnology (IT) in the Society – analysis of data. Business, Communication, 4. UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING Education, Healthcare, - Proliferation of computer and Entertainment, and Daily Life. computing devices — ALEXA & SIRI 5. EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Information - Innovations such as Artificial - Data or Knowledge that has been Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, PROCESSED, ORGANIZED, or Blockchain, Virtual Reality (VR), and STRUCTURED to be meaningful and the Internet of Things (IoT) convey meaning or make decisions. 6. DIGITAL DISRUPTION - Is a FACT provided or learned about - Traditional to digital business something or someone. strategies 7. INFORMATION ACCESSIBILITY METHODS FOR TRANSFER OF - Greater access to information, INFORMATION education, and online resources 8. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IMPACT 1. Image - IT has influenced social 2. Text interactions, culture, and 3. Sound entertainment to connect people — 4. Video rise of digital content platforms 9. ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE Technology CHANGES - Collection of tools, techniques, - New jobs roles and industries, systems, and methods to solve traditional jobs have been problems, accomplish tasks, and transformed by automation and achieve goals — perform a specific digital technologies. function. History of Information Technology Information Technology - Use of Computers, Softwares, Pre-mechanical Age Networks, and other technology > earliest age of information technology, resources to STORE, RETRIEVE, between 3000 B.C and 1450 A.D TRANSMIT, and MANIPULATE data or information.  1.Writing and Alphabets - Electromechanical Age Communication 1. Morse Code (1835) PETROGLYPH - first humans ★ Samuel Morse - first version of an communicated through SPEAKING electromagnetic telegraph and PICTURE DRAWINGS. 2. Telephone and Radio (1876) 2. Paper and Pens - Input Technology ★ Alexander Graham Bell - first STYLUS (Summerians) - scratch working telephone marks in wet clay 3. Cromptograph (1885) 3.Books and Libraries: Permanent ★ Dorr Felt - adding and subtracting Storage Devices calculator — has built-in printer 600 B.C — Greeks fold sheets of papyrus vertically into leaves and bind them together Electronic Age 1. ABC Computer (1942) 4. The First Numbering Systems ★ John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry between 100 and 200 A.D — Hindus - first electronic computer called in India -> Nine - Digit Numbering ABC or Atanasoff - Berry Computer System ★ Foundation for advances in electronic digital computers 5. The First Calculators: ABACUS - very first information Current Impact and Future Trends processors - Digital Transformation - Cloud Computing Mechanical Age - Remote Work and Collaboration 1. The First Information Explosion Tools ★ Johann Gutenberg - movable - Cybersecurity metal-type printing process (1450) - Artificial Technology 2. Calculating Machine ★ Wilhelm Schickard - first mechanical calculator (1623) — six digits and carries digits across columns 3. Pascaline ★ Blaise Pascal - can solve mathematical problems (add and subtract) 4. Babbage’s Engines ★ Charles Babbage - difference engine and analytical engine (FATHER OF MODERN COMPUTER)