Progress in information technology

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Skills: none

IT concepts: technology progress versus technology, progress in storage, electronic and communication technology

Where does this topic fit?

• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications for

• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation

Information technologies

Electronic

Storage

Communication

Technology progress and technology shifts

Technology progress

1903

1905

Storage: IBM 305 RAMAC, 1956

5 million characters (6 bits each)50 two-foot-diameter disks$167,850 with no printerA nice house was $15,000 and a coke or candt bar 5 cents

Electronics: transistors

Three billion transistor integrated circuits (chips) today

First integrated circuit, 1959

First transistor, 1948

Communication: 1986, NSFNet backbone 56 kbps

Today 10 gbps is common

The first functioning laser, 1960

My first home terminal, 1973, 100 bits per second

Progress in information technology

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IT concepts: technology progress versus technology, progress in storage, electronic and communication technology

A few questions

We looked at storage, electronic and communication technology. What other technologies are undergoing dramatic improvement?

If the first cars got only 1 mile per gallon, and that doubled every two years, what would our mileage have been 20 years later? Thirty years later?

What is punched in this card?