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The Evolution of Information Technology: Past, Present, and Future

Explore the journey of information technology from the abacus to DNA chips, highlighting key milestones such as the invention of the printing press, the rise of disruptive technologies, and the impact of globalization. Discover how computing has transformed lives globally and delve into the advancements in hardware and memory storage technologies.

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The Evolution of Information Technology: Past, Present, and Future

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  1. Live IT Up! Kelly Rainer Auburn University (334) 844-6527 rainer@business.auburn.edu 1

  2. Let’s Put the Importance of Information Technology in Context

  3. An interesting opening Video clip http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2005/08/05/CU2005080501141.html?whichDay=3 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2005/08/05/CU2005080501141.html?whichDay=3

  4. Disruptive Technologies • Wheel • Printing Press • Electricity • Computer (chip)

  5. Three Great Waves of Change(from Toeffler) • From Hunter-Gatherer to Agricultural Age • From Agricultural Age to Industrial Age • 1st Industrial Age – steam engine • 2nd Industrial Age – electricity • From Industrial Age to Information Age • Biotechnology Age

  6. The World Is Flatby Thomas Friedman • Globalization 1.0 • Globalization 2.0 • Globalization 3.0

  7. The 10 Forces That Flattened the World • November 9, 1989 • August 9, 1995 • Work-flow software • Open-source movement • Outsourcing • Offshoring • Supply-chaining • In-sourcing • In-forming • Wireless, computing capacity, VoIP

  8. Examples of Flat World • Accountants (tax returns) • Physicians (medical tourism) • www.theindiadirectory.com/Health-Tourism/

  9. Bumrungrad Hospital in Thailand

  10. Using Cheap, Ubiquitous Computing to Improve Lives

  11. Computing Everywhere (Motomen in Cambodia)

  12. E-Choupal in India

  13. Village children with normal laptops

  14. MIT $100 Laptop

  15. MIT $100 Laptop

  16. MIT $100 Laptop

  17. Hardware 9

  18. The Abacus

  19. The Slide Rule (invented early 1600s)

  20. The Pascaline(invented by Blaise Pascal, circa 1642)This is the front view.

  21. The Pascaline (rear view)

  22. Joseph Marie Jacquard’s Loomcirca 1830(note the punch cards)

  23. Augusta Ada Byron, 1815-1852The World’s First Programmer

  24. Grace Hopper

  25. Hollerith Machine

  26. Hollerith Detail

  27. The Mark I (1944)(8 feet tall, 51 feet long,5 tons)

  28. Howard Aiken, a Ph.D student at Harvard University inside the Mark I

  29. Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)

  30. UNIVAC… the first general-purpose computer for commercial use (late 1940s)

  31. Early IBM Mainframe

  32. After Vacuum Tubes came TransistorsThis is the first point-contact transistor.

  33. After transistors, on to chips (also called microprocessors)

  34. Intel 4004 Chip (1971)

  35. Intel 8008 Chip (1972)

  36. Intel 8088 (1979)

  37. Intel 80286 (1982)

  38. Intel 80386 (1985)

  39. Intel 80486 (1989)

  40. Intel Pentium 4

  41. Inside the Pentium 4

  42. Intel Itanium 2

  43. DNA Chip

  44. The Latest Thing in ChipsMulticore Processors

  45. Memory (Storage) 14

  46. IBM Disk Storage Unit (1956)

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