Info3- Future Development

Emerging technologies

Past:

• quicker and more efficient ways 
• need ways to collect and analyse data 
• process customer purchases quickly and to improve profitability
• carry out complex calcualtions on large amounts of data 
• powerul processors and large amounts of memory and storage sapce
• commnuciaton needed to help busienss people

Emerging Technologies

Major Impacts:

• reduction in size of devices 
• increase in processing power
• methods of storage (increased portability)
• advances in telecommunications, to transport data almost instantly.

Emerging Technologies

Mobile working:

Past= business traveler would carry:

• laptop- producing documents
• mobile phone- making calls
• PDA-short notes and contact information

Present= phones have:

• cameras
• address books
• music
• video players
• notebook
• connect to internet

The phones are becoming smaller and more functions that require businesses to adapt

Emerging Technologies

Entertainment

digital data enables user to:

• listen to music
• watch TV
• take part in interactive programs

the TV guides/ schedules are becoming more easier to navigate and users can also download and view at their own convenience.

channels can be easily created, such as a Football team giving more control over the marketing and experience for the fans

Emerging Technolgies

Ubiquitous computing 

user interacts with a range of devices that work together seamlessly

e.g:

• clothes have a tag that are read by a washing machine so it automatically know how to wash them

Each connected item will need a individual ID by a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)

e.g:

• mobile phones could be used used to pay for good

others include 'Semacode tag' that link to website URLs and 'GPS' to track anything (phones + bags)

Potential future uses of ICT

Supercomputers

define- are mainframe computers that are amongst the most powerful computers at any particular time.

they are used to model weather and climate, to investigae the performacne of new drugs.

Brain- controlled computing

humans give off electrical signals and there is the possibility of using brain waves to control device.

Implications of future developments

Mobile working

• business don't need the staff to be physically present in the office every day due to teleworking and videoconferencing with advances in communication technologies with Wifi, Bluetooth and mobile broadband.
• but it might be stressful as the staff cant escape and relax with security concern, 24/7 contact and data being at risk

Bioinformatics

• predict future illnesses , as it investigates all 20,000 or more genes in human DNA with computer databases

Interplanetary Internet?

internet to communicate between networks using protocols