NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Collaborative Software, Financial Transaction, Dignity
31 Mar 2016
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Payroll, inventory, word processors, spread sheets and databases. Www, e-mail, blogs, instant messaging, social networks, twitter, telephony, discussion groups, etc. Easier to search, access, collect, storage and distribute information. Basic and advanced skills, foreign languages, distance learning . Automatic teller machines (atms), point-of-sales terminals (poss), electronic banking and investment. Tech created new possibilities for crime, they used to not exist. Think twice of putting our money in the banks because of hacking. Benefits have a price and side affects. Computers usage raises a series of important and often controversial socio- culture issues. But more people are needed in the computer industry. But the banking industry is fighting crime vigorously. A person whereabouts and her financial transactions can be tracked. Two sides of buying books on the web (amazon) Many good aspects (don"t have to travel, can read it online, delivers really quickly) You open yourself to theft when you give credit card information online (hackers can get your information)
