Slide 1 Tomorrow’s Technology and You A look at computers with a different focus… - “Know what?” - “So what?” - “Now what?”

Slide 2 Tomorrow’s Technology and You Chapter 1 Our Digital Planet © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 3 Objectives What can we learn from computer history? How are computers used in modern life? So what? What are some issues raised by our use of computers in the present and in the future? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 4 Creating Communities on the Living Web (pp 3-4) How old is the social networking phenomenon? So what? How many people use Facebook? What are the benefits? downsides? How is Facebook doing relative to MySpace? So what? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide : Konrad Zuse - Germany first programmable digital computer No funding – why not? 1943: Alan Turing (UK) computer used by British – for what? ‘So what’? What does Moore’s Law state? What are the consequences of this pace of change? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Computers in Perspective: An Evolving Idea (pp 6-9) What did Douglas Adams say about ‘reactions to technologies’ ? So what?

Slide 6 Objectives What can we learn from computer history? How are computers used in modern life? So what? What are some issues raised by our use of computers in the present and in the future? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 7 Computers Today (pp 9 – 15) Mainframes – Servers – Desktops/Laptops All networked – Client/Server relationship © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

LAN Other LAN = s DB Mainframe Internet Server LAN Server User Where is your N: drive? -so what?

Slide 9 Computers Today (pp 9 – 15) Mainframes – Servers – Desktops/Laptops All networked – Client/Server relationship PDA’s – Synonyms? Examples? Embedded – Examples? So what? is Skype really better than your telephone? does your safety depend on an embedded computer? What can you do on your PC if the LAN is down? What other dependencies can you think of? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 10 Objectives What can we learn from computer history? How are computers used in modern life? So what? What are some issues raised by our use of computers in the present and in the future? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 11 Social & Ethical Issues (pp 16-30) Or ‘Ripples and Breakwaters’ Explain each of these issues, give an example, and describe the pros and cons. How can we profit by the first and minimize the second? Collaborative computing - Web 2.0( pp16-19)Web 2.0 Increasing dependence on complex technology (pp 27-28) Threat to privacy, data security and intellectual property (p25) Reliance on technology to solve problems (p30) © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.