BMGT 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Digital Divide, Computer Hardware, Software
11 Sep 2017
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It infrastructure: provides platform for supporting al information systems in the business. Organizes, manages, and processes business data concerned with inventory, customers, and vendors. A industry with an estimated trillion in the us (2010!) Shrinks sixe of transistors to size comparable to size of a virus. The amount of data being stored each year doubles. The world produces as much as 5 exabyte (10 raised to power 18) of unique information per year. Value or power of a network grows upward as a function of the number of network members. As network members increase, more people want to use it (demand network access increases) An estimated 3. 5 billion people worldwide have internet access (end of. As communication costs fall toward a very small number, utilization of communication and computing facilities explodes. North/south divide, northern countries are more developed than southern. Digital divide refers to those who have internet access vs those who do not.
