Computing Today

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Lecture
Discussion

• Computing Today

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Where are we Headed?

• How will computers change our lives...
• at home?
• at work?
• at school?

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Computing Devices

• What is a computer?
• How have devices changed?
• What new devices do we have?

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The Internet

• What is the internet?
• How has it changed...
• Home?
• Work?
• School?

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Entertainment

• How have games evolved?
• Music and Movie Production
• Sharing, Free Use, and Piracy

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Changes in Business

• Entertainment
• Medical
• Shipping / Logistics
• What else?

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Computer-Related Jobs

• Website Design
• Programming
• Consulting
• Database Admin

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Risks of the Information Age

• How have we come to depend on computers?
• How has communication changed?
• What about sociality?

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Sociality

• Social Networking Sites
• Online Dating
• txtspk
• Digital Divide

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Modern Security

• Phishing
• Social Engineering
• Spam
• Viruses and Malware

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Generational Gap

• How has technology impacted the differences
  between our generations?
• How has this gap affected...
• the workforce?
• education?

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Amateur Publishing

• Blogs and Reporting
• Video Production
• YouTube
• Video Games
• Flash games, etc

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The Information Age

• How have computers changed our lives....
• at home?
• at work?
• at school?