The Future for ICT

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• "I think there is a world market for maybe five
  computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM,
  1943
• "Computers in the future may weigh no more than
  1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the
  relentless march of science, 1949
• "There is no reason anyone would want a computer
  in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman
  and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
• "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill
  Gates, 1981

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• Four Glimpses into the Future
• 1. You pull into the dry cleaners on your way to
  work and check e-mail from your tiny personal
  computing device as you drop off your shirts.
• 2. Your e-mail is automatically sorted, with the
  most urgent messages determined by eight factors,
  including how quickly you've responded to each
  sender in the past and your body language as you
  did so.

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• 3. You check in with the office via your
  earrings, which contain microphones and speakers
  wirelessly connecting you to a cell phone. Or
  maybe your earrings are the cell phone, and all
  commands are voice driven.
• 4. As you settle into your cubicle, a sensor on
  your employee badge communicates with the office
  computers, projectors and printers, instantly
  configuring a network that lets co-workers
  electronically interact with you.

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• Satellite positioning for car drivers, tells the
  driver where they are and where the traffic jams
  are.
• With greater accuracy could these actually drive
  the car on the roads avoiding other cars and
  pedestrians?

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• A new style WAP telephone.
• Will these be small enough to wear on the wrist,
  or be the size of a ring?

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• DVD now holds many gigabytes of data, enough for
  a film.
• How long will it be before all the films ever
  made can be stored onto a disc?

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• Flat screen TVs are available now at a price.
• Will everyone have one hanging on the sitting
  room wall before too long?

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• Robots are being developed that are smaller and
  smaller for more detailed jobs.
• Will robots ever be small enough to travel around
  the human body sending back data and performing
  operations?

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• The Future Lifestyle
• Everybody will carry a small personal computer
  but it will be called a "personal communicator.
• This will combine the computer as we know it with
  a cellular-telephone.
• Each unit will have telephone, fax, e-mail (text
  / voice / video), browser and general computer
  facilities. Everyone will have a personal source
  of information, able to access easily
  encyclopaedias, telephone directories, train
  timetables and other similar information
  databases anywhere in the world.

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• It will also have TV/Radio, personal stereo,
  calculator,and link easily to Internet, to their
  bank's computer and to a desk-top computer in
  their own homes using infra red wireless
  technology.
• It will also carry Global Satellite Positioning
  facilities from cellular telephone network.
• Disk storage will not be necessary for these
  portable units as they will be able to record
  data on remote hardware.

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• Individuals will be able to control home
  security, home telephone messages and the like
  from their portable computer.
• Setting the video at home to record a TV program
  would be easy except that the video recorder
  and even the television broadcast system will
  probably have changed also.
• Already being developed is a home refrigerator
  that uses bar codes to keep stock of it contents,
  supplying you with recipes for what you have and
  telephoning your supplier when stock runs low.

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• Ultimately manufacturers will aim for full
  portability and so miniaturisation will be a
  goal. Use of voice recognition will render
  key-boards unnecessary except perhaps in a
  miniature emergency format.
• Similarly it is likely that these units will
  carry an onboard digital camera. This will be
  used for communication, photo-copying, faxing as
  well as still and video camera work. The
  "Personal Communicator" will then be both a still
  camera and a video camera.

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• The Future School
• Every student and teacher will carry a "personal
  communicator".
• All will have access to the Internet and other
  networks.
• School work will use this new tool as an
  information source and a communication system.
• Projects will be researched, prepared, delivered
  and evaluated using this tool.
• Computer studies as we know it will change.

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• In the classroom perhaps teachers will be working
  with small groups of teachers, moving between
  classrooms and open learning areas.
• They will be helping students to make sense of
  information, to support their work on a problem
  or in producing a presentation of some form
  (multimedia or single media), which will
  demonstrate their understanding.

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• Students will be working in their preferred way -
  one that matches their own learning style and
  which they have been developing with teacher
  support.
• Teachers will work in shifts being available for
  calls from students in the evenings on the
  Internet by text, voice or video.
• Schools may become community-style centres
  operating seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

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• Perhaps the curriculum will also have changed,
  matching the demands of society and preparing
  students for the life and work place skills they
  will need to function in the 21st century.
• Assessment structures will have been revised and
  group assessment and multimedia based assessment
  will have replaced the traditional pencil and
  paper methods of the previous century.

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