Emerging Technologies
- Created by: MiyaKanth
- Created on: 11-09-17 12:46
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- Emerging Technologies
- Robotics
- + used in manufacture reduces human error efficient in repetitive tasks
- - cost of equipment jobs replaced by robots unemployment
- Mobile Working
- + portable business done anywhere anytime international business
- - different time zones face to face communication lost
- Biometrics
- - map identity needed high cost of biometric systems
- + passwords are strong requires less in database memory
- RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
- + used for pet tracking micro chips credit cards
- - Doesn't work under certain environmental conditions
- Nano Technology
- - weaponized can destroy human body dependant on treatment
- + medicine and hospitals the use of microscopic things at a Nano scale level
- Future Uses of ICT
- Wireless energy (wictricity), Novel User Interface touch screen no need for keyboard, flexible screens, Web 2.0 new version of the internet, smart cars, national DNA database, face recognition
- Impacts
- Impact on society higher standard of living, workers more productive with ICT, greater democracy voting online, improvement in health use of iCT illness prevention, more intelligent systems in the home, increasing digital divide
- impact on Consumers + Workers harder to maintain work life barrier, friction at home too much work, continual updated iCT skills, communication changes
- Impact on workers as individuals, changes ICT skills required, changes work patterns, changes internal procedures
- Issues
- Issues in Society, violent videos, encryptions terrorists criminals, problem with addiction, less privacy, rise in crime
- Robotics
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