APPLICATIONS
So far we’ve touched upon the hardware and the networking
aspects of information communication technologies. This
section will focus on application, on what computers can
do – software and interaction. You think your computer
is only good for Web browsing? We’ll have a look
at software, specifically
some of the earliest applications, such as word processing
and spreadsheets. We’ll dip into e-commerce,
the buzzword of the 90s and find out why some online businesses
succeed where others fail. We’ll have a look at
good interface design in human-computer
interaction, and why metaphors are useful.
Then
we’ll take a look at where ICT technologies turn
up, in quite unexpected places. Laurie Keller from the
Open University claims They’re
Everywhere! (Computers that is!). We’re going
to do a bit of future gazing with Prof. Anthony Finklestein
of University College, London who takes a nostalgic
trip through his childhood to give his view of the future
in Enquire Within upon
Everything. . Ian Pearson, a futurologist from BT
also talks to us about his view of the future of computing
in the audio files.
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