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IT and O ur Future

IT and O ur Future. Nirvikar Singh Department of Economics University of California, Santa Cruz Presentation for Information Systems Management 101 November 18, 2010. What is IT?.

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IT and O ur Future

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  1. IT and Our Future Nirvikar Singh Department of Economics University of California, Santa Cruz Presentation for Information Systems Management 101 November 18, 2010

  2. What is IT? • “…all the technology, both hardware and software, used to store, process and transport information in digital form.” • Nicholas Carr, “IT Doesn’t Matter,” Harvard Business Review, May 2003 • Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, HBS Press, 2004

  3. Falling Costs of Computing (US $)

  4. A Fourth Dimension? • Processing, storage, transport and… • Information capture • Key pad • Touch screen • Microphone • Scanner • Camera • Heat sensor • Motion sensor • Electromagnetic wave sensor • (Texture, taste, smell…?)

  5. Mirror Worlds • “What if there were two worlds, the real one and its digital reflection? The real one is strewn with sensors, picking up everything from movement to smell. The digital one, an edifice built of software, takes in all that information and automatically acts on it.” • It’s a Smart World, The Economist, Nov. 4th, 2010 • Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean (1992), David Gelernter

  6. Information Capture • Bridge between virtual and real world • Reverse bridge is mostly through displays • Screens • Holograms? • Also through computer voice • Telephone menus • Car navigators

  7. Processing • Models of complex physical systems • Car crashes • Chemical reactions • Airplane flight • Financial markets • Climate change • Tectonic plates • Economies

  8. Storage • Progression of complexity/size • Text • Images • Music • Video • Entertainment • Education • Work

  9. Transport • Information sharing and communication • “Death of distance” • Interaction • Education • Entertainment • Socializing • Work • E-commerce • Mobility – “death of location” • Immediacy • Information on demand

  10. Capture • Characteristics • Location • Movement • Appearance • Voice • Temperature • “Identity” • “State” (normal/expected or not)

  11. Smart Systems • Feedback loop: • Real  Virtual  Real • Examples • Assembly lines • Cars • Airplanes • Buildings • Water systems • Power grids

  12. Hybrid Smart Systems • People and IT intertwined • Cities • Social networks (communities) • Firms • Collectives • Resource efficiency • New forms or levels of activity • New challenges • Privacy • Inequality

  13. Conclusion • There is none….

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