CMN2168 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Time-Sharing, Microelectronics
20 Jun 2015
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Notion of: territory, skilled and participant publics, political participation, economic implications, security implications, globalization and localization global technological infrastructure contribution to out notions of space and time. distance is no longer a barrier to out social lives. Ict - information communicaton technology used to transport or transfer, handle or control and store data data is a representation of information. Information is what we have when the data are brought together and interpret and distinguish meaning. Data is meaningless when viewed as a separate. Rhetoric of the information age: provided a refrain to accompany the robotizing of factories, new office automation systems, the rise of cable and satellite etc. (finish quote) The crucial ressource of the new society is technoscientific knowledge ( tech and science fuse to drive society) The invention and diffusion of icts is the prime mover in the new era transfer, process, store, dissemination - the exchange and manipulation of data is most important.
