Professionalism and Personal Skills

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Lecture 19
• NT In The Home

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• OBJECTIVES
• By the end of this lecture the student should
• Appreciate some past technological advances
• Understand the some implications of technological
  advances
• Understand how these can affect people in the home

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• NT has significantly affected the workplace
• Also significantly affected the home
• Lecture will examine effect of NT/IT in home

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Perspectives
• Forms of Application
• The Hunt Report
• Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984
• Internet
• Summary
• Further Reading

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Historical Perspective
• NT in the home not a new phenomenon
• Telephone
• Radio
• Washing Machine
• Television

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Optimistic Perspective
• Reduces Domestic Chores
• Electronics Networks
• Fibre-optics

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Pessimistic Perspective
• Reduces Social Interaction
• Computer Phobia

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Forms of Application
• Basis of New Products
• Replace Conventional Circuitry
• Change the production process itself
• Affect basic information systems

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Television
• Pessimistic Perspective
• Optimistic Perspective

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• British Experience
• Colour Television
• Personal Computers

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Technology is loved in the home
• Traditional systems
• Limited fibre cables
• Interactive Systems
• TV was tied up in legislation
• Hunt committee

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• The Hunt Report Proposed
• Rewire Britain
• Expanded Channel Capacity
• Two-way Communication
• Work with other Communications Technologies

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Satellite
• British Sky Broadcasting
• BBC/ITV

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Optimistic View
• Pay-Per-View
• Appointment TV

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Pessimistic View
• Private Profit Narrowcasting
• Pay-Per-View
• More Choice

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Whats happened?
• TV Games
• CD/DVD Roms
• Smart Cards
• ATM machine fraud
• Criminal tagging
• Childrens TV
• Cable

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Whats happening
• Teletext
• EMail
• Internet/WWW
• Video Conferencing
• Mobile Phones
• Mobile Office

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Internet/WWW
• Optimistic View
• Pessimistic View

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Internet/WWW
• PC has become a multimedia centre in home
• E-Business

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Further Reading
• People and Chips
• Chapter 7 and 10

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Summary
• Perspectives
• Forms of Application
• The Hunt Report
• Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984
• Internet
• Summary
• Further Reading

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• OBJECTIVES
• Appreciate past technological advances
• Appreciate forthcoming technological advances
• Understand the implications of technological
  advances
• Understand how these will affect society