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Chapter 9

Emerging Trends and Technologies

Business, People, and Technology tomorrow

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Presentation Overview

The Need For Information Filtering The Movement Toward Intellectual

Computing The Changing of Physiological Interaction Increasing Portability and Mobility The Digital Frontier The Rebirth of E-Commerce The Most Important Considerations

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Opening Case StudyWould You Use an Internet-Enabled

Toilet?

Matsushita recently announced its plan to make Internet-enabled toilets widely available to the public.

How would an internet-enabled toilet impact your life and your privacy?

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Introduction

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The Need For Information Filtering

Push, Not Pull Technologies

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Information suppliers include businesses that provide you with magazines, Internet access, books, etc.

If you receive your newspaper from the same company that supplies your Internet access you are experiencing supplier convergence.

The Need For Information Filtering

Information Supplier Convergence

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Automatic speech recognition has come a long way in the past several years, but it still has a long way to go.

If we someday create intelligent software, then speech recognition will become speech understanding.

The Movement Toward Intellectual Computing

Automatic Speech Understanding

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Regardless of how intelligent a computer system may become, it will never completely replace people in all aspects of decision making.

The Movement Toward Intellectual Computing

People Will Still Make The Decisions

On Your Own

Where Should the Decision Rest?

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The Changing Of Physiological Interaction

__________ - the use of your physical characteristics – such as your fingerprint, the blood vessels in the retina of your eye, the sound of your voice, or perhaps even your breath – to provide identification.

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The Changing Of Physiological Interaction

__________– a system that not only captures spoken words but also distinguishes word groupings to form sentences.

__________– a three-dimensional computer simulation in which you actively and physically participate.

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The Changing Of Physiological Interaction

Cave Automatic Virtual Environment

CAVE (cave automatic virtual environment) - a special 3-D virtual reality room that can display images of other people and objects located in other CAVEs all over the world.

__________– devices that create, capture, and/or display images in true three-dimensional form.

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The Changing Of Physiological Interaction

Cave Automatic Virtual Environment

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Increasing Portability and Mobility

__________ refers to how easy it is for you to carry around your technology.

__________ encompasses what you have the ability to do with your technology while carrying it around.

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Increasing Portability and Mobility

Free Internet Phone Calls

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Increasing Portability and MobilityMicro-Payments and Financial

Cybermediaries

__________ - techniques to facilitate the exchange of small amounts of money for an Internet transaction.

__________ - Internet-based companies that make it easy for one person to pay another person over the Internet.

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Increasing Portability and Mobility

Wearable Computers

Wearable computer - a fully-equipped computer that you wear as a piece of clothing or attached to a piece of clothing similar to way you would carry your cell phone on your belt.

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Increasing Portability and Mobility

__________ - a technology-enabled microchip implanted into the human body. Implant chips server two functions:

1. Contains memory which stores important information about you.

2. Many of these chips are GPS-enabled.

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Increasing Portability and Mobility

Implant Chips

Global positioning system (GPS) - a collection of 24 earth-orbiting satellites that transmit radio signals to determine longitude, latitude, speed, and direction of movement.

Team Work

Selling the Idea of Implant Chips at

Your School(p. 451)(p. 451)

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The Digital Frontier

__________– marked by the electronic movement of all types of information, not limited to numbers, words, graphs, and photos but including physiological information such as voice recognition and synthesization, biometrics (your retina scan and breath for example), and 3-D holograms.

Last-mile bottleneck problem - occurs when information is traveling on the Internet over a very fast line for a certain distance and then comes near your home where it must travel over a slower line.

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The Digital FrontierThree-Dimensional Technology

Three-dimensional (3-D) technology - presentations of information that give you the illusion that the object you’re viewing is actually in the room with you.

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The Digital FrontierDigital Cash

Digital cash (also called electronic cash or e-cash) - an electronic representation of cash.

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The Rebirth of E-CommerceBroadening of E-Government

Four primary focuses in the e-government arena:1. Government-to-Government (G2G) –

performing electronic commerce activities within a single nation’s government.

2. Government-to-Business (G2B) – performed between a government and its business partners.

3. Government-to-Consumer (G2C) – performed between a government and its citizens or consumers.

4. International Government-to-Government (IG2G) – performed between two or more governments.

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The Rebirth of E-CommerceBroadening of E-Government

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The Rebirth of E-CommerceExplosion of C2C E-Commerce

Of all the types of private-sector e-commerce activities – B2B, B2C, C2C, and C2B – the least amount of revenue dollars right now is in the C2C (consumer-to-consumer) space.

We expect that to change rather dramatically in the next several years.

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The Most Important Considerations

The Necessity of Technology

Technology is a necessity today.

It’s hard to imagine a world without technology.

Just as we need electricity to function on an everyday basis, we need technology as well.

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The Most Important Considerations

Closing the Great Digital Divide

The power of technology needs to be realized on a worldwide scale.

We cannot afford to have any technology-challenged nation or culture (within reason).

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The Most Important Considerations

Technology for the Betterment of People and Society

As you approach the development and use of technological innovations (or even standard technologies), think in terms of the betterment of people and society in general.

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The Most Important Considerations

Exchanging Privacy for Convenience

You need to consider how much of your personal privacy you’re giving up in exchange for convenience.

Everyday you’re giving up just a little more privacy in exchange for a little more convenience.

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The Most Important ConsiderationsEthics, Ethics, Ethics

Ethics guide your behavior that affects other people.

It’s quite possible to be very ethical and very successful.

On Your Own

Necessity, Convenience,

and Privacy(p. 458) (p. 458)

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Closing Case Studies

Airtexting: Wave Your Cell Phone Message In The Air Are cell phones a technology of

convenience or necessity?

Stadiums Of The Future Can you think of any other industries

that are implementing technology-based activities?

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Summary Assignments & Exercises

1. Researching wearable computers2. Information supplier convergence in

your area3. Finding a good automatic speech

recognition system4. Understanding the relationships

between trends and technological innovations

5. Making a phone call on the internet

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Summary Assignments & Exercises

6. Learning about financial cybermediaries

7. Researching intelligent home appliances

8. Researching e-government services

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