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How information technology is conquering the world : workplace, private life, and society /
Information Technology (IT) is conquering the world. It affects our jobs, our lives as private citizens, and society. Its impact is greater than other technologies, such as railways, personal cars, and the telephone. However, while most can understand the potential and constraints of these technolog...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Fundamentals
- Welcome to the virtual world
- Information technology
- Formalization
- Cases of formalization
- Formalization levels
- Cases of formalization level
- Symbolic data
- Cost-benefit of formalization
- pt. 2. Constraints
- Computer intelligence
- Constraints on technology
- Case studies: technical constraints
- The devil is in the details
- Cultural constraints
- Case studies: cultural constraints
- Privacy and security
- Case study: Internet elections
- pt. 3. Usability
- Interactive computing
- Usability
- Simplicity
- Case: flexible user interfaces
- Bad systems
- pt. 4. System development
- Developing a system
- Software engineering
- Packages and ERP systems
- Simpler software development for niche companies
- Case 1. In-house programming
- Case 2. Developing apps
- pt. 5. Internet and WWW basics
- HTML and XML
- Internet protocols
- Development of web protocols
- E-mail, chat and text-messages (SMS)
- Browsers
- World Wide Web
- Searching the Web
- Organizing the Web: portals
- Web presence
- Mobile computing
- Automated Web and push technology
- Dynamic Web pages and the form tag
- Embedded scripts
- Peer-to-peer computing
- Social networks
- Web 2.0
- pt. 6. Business-to-consumer applications
- Symbolic services: information providers
- Online symbolic services: case studies
- Long tail
- Online retail shopping, physical items
- A better model?
- pt. 7. Business-to-business applications
- Data exchange
- Formalized data exchange
- Electronic data interchange (EDI)
- XML
- Web services
- Automated value chain
- Electronic marketplaces
- Outsourcing
- pt. 8. Cloud computing and large data repositories
- Cloud computing
- Collecting data
- Automatic translation
- Case: proofreading
- Case: an adaptive system
- Crowdsourcing
- Cloud data for the individual: a personal assistant
- pt. 9. A digital world
- Continuously online
- Internet and democracy
- Changing the world
- Effects of IT technology
- Afterword.