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Today in the post what I would like to go over are the number of different aspects of technology that are important for understanding the interaction between technology and society in the context of global disruption. So, one of the things you will see that Bill, Bonnie and myself talk a lot about is we like to put some definitions out there. That's really important because people in this class are coming from all kinds of different disciplines and it's pretty important that we understand the language that we are using, and what is included and what is not included, and the different concepts that we use because if we're not speaking the same language it is going to be hard to effectively solve some of these difficult problems and to engage with some of these predicaments that we find ourselves in. So,  let's  start by just looking at the word technology.This post will explain you introduction of information technology and digital activities. It is a best system in all over world. India now increase fast in this case. Digital activities is the best process in daily activities, like:- Banking,Shopping and Learning etc.

Global Disruption and Information Technology and IT is the name of the class, and technology has some of the same roots as some of the other words we've been looking at in this class. It is a Greek word and it's made up of two sort of smaller components, the first one being logia, or the study of, and the second one, or the first part but the second part I am going to address is techno which originally had the idea of art or craft or skill. So together   technology   has its roots,  the history of the development of the word as the study of art or craft or skill. Well, that's not entirely how we think of it today, and as you look at the ways in which it has been used over time by about 1859 the word technology had taken on more of the framing that we use when we use it in the sense that we specifically think of it as the study of mechanical or industrial arts, and increasingly information art or data-driven technologies. 

So, technology as a word has been changing over time, and about 1859 is when we started seeing it used the way we use it today. Now, there are a lot of different ways in which people try and describe technology that are less ways of defining the word for usage, and more thought-provoking ways of using the term that helps us to think about what do we mean when we say technology? So, let me give you a few of those. So, Alan Kay who is a computing pioneer likes to call technology as "Anything that was invented after you were born." That's interesting because it draws to the forefront the idea that people like to engage with technology over the course of their lifetime in the sense that they see it progressing and they understand a little bit about its trajectory. So, something that is technology is something that you saw and you grew up with.

 A science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke, has more of a literary approach to it. He has a famous quite in which he says "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." This idea draws out the idea that technology is often just a source of wonder for us and we look to it to solve many of our problems and hope that like magic it will just make it disappear. So, that sort of comes from a literary background. A kind of a more humorous definition is something that is called Kranzberg's First Law of Technology. It is humorous, but it draws out some of the idea that there are values that are embedded in technology. The law is as follows. "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral." This idea tries to get us to think about the fact that just because you have a technology doesn't mean that it is necessarily going to be used for something good, just like it's not necessarily going to be used for something bad, but at the same time different technologies certainly lend themselves to different kinds of uses.  

 Think about a gun as a technology. There are some sort of basic things that you can do with a gun that lend itself to law enforcement and crime. It doesn't really end itself very well to the same things that a plow might be used for or a satellite might be used for. So, it's not explicitly good nor bad, but it's not completely neutral either. When we talk about technology in this class we are really focusing on information technology. We take a broad view of it though. So, obviously we have the hardware aspects of information technology. For example, the computer chips that are in laptops and in phones today. We also include the keyboards that we use to type on, the monitors that we use to view things on, the displays that come in embedded devices, the wires that connect those devices. That's all hardware, the physical stuff that makes it information technology. There is also a conceptual part of information technology which is the software. These are the apps that you download onto your android phone. They are the programs that you run on your MAC laptop. It's the computer code which is written by people and becomes the instruction for how this information technology is used when it's a general purpose computing platform.

Now, the reason why we say that this class uses a broader approach to information technology is because we also include some of the infrastructure that is needed in order to make information technology work. So, that important infrastructure includes things like electricity. Most of our computers cannot work unless they are at some point plugged into a wall. There is the cloud now, the sense in which there is computing that is out there far away in datacenters. It's not part of a phone that you are carrying or the laptop that you are typing notes on, but it is increasingly critical to doing the things that we expect our computers to do. For  website to run, for banks to operate, for us to be able to order something  online. We also think about the wireless spectrum, or the process by which we allocate different frequencies in the atmosphere so that cell phones can communicate,  WiFi can operate, televisions can broadcast. These are all part of the infrastructure. We even go so far as to say that people interacting with technology are part of the infrastructure of information technology. Technologies are likely designed for people, and if they are not designed with people in mind they are not going to be a very good information technology.

 So, the Information Technology Association of America defines information technology very well and the way that we would largely agree with, as the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software application sand computer hardware. To that in our class we will include infrastructure and people. So, this picture here is an artist's representation of technology. It looks a little bit like The Matrix, or Minority Report, or Iron Man, or some kind of advanced user interface that is out there, and we sometimes think about technology as if it is this thing that was just handed down from the sky like a mountain, or like a river, and we forget that at the end of the day all this complicated technology is made by people. It's made by people who were like you at one point.

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