The Red Group

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The Red Group

• I.T. Shapes Us More Than We Shape It

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The Red Team

• Leader
• Ronan McDonnell
• Speaker 1
• Mark Kelly
• Helpers
• Simon Lewis
• Declan McGuire
• Speaker 2
• Jason McCandless
• Helpers
• Joseph MacMunn
• Ronan McDonnell

• Speaker 3
• Amy Lee
• Helpers
• Conor Kelly
• Mark McCann
• Rebuttal
• Sarah McCarthy
• PowerPoint
• Declan McGuire
• Jason McCandless

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Speaker 1
Mark Kelly
Helpers
Declan McGuire
Simon Lewis
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• What Is I.T. ?

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Definition Of I.T.

• Branch of technology concerned with the
  dissemination, processing, and storage of
  information.

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This Is A Piece Of I.T.
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So Are These
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And So Is This
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Most Basic Form Of I.T.
Writing

• How Has This Shaped Us?
• To show this we will look at literate and
  non-literate societies

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Non-Literate Society

• The Masai are a very famous warrior tribe in
  Kenya whose lives centre around herding cattle.
• Women spend much time doing bead work. They
  decorate animal hides, gourds, and make beaded
  jewellery including arm and leg bracelets and
  amulets.
• Their wealth is measured by the number of cattle
  they have acquired.
• Their society is reminiscent of what ours would
  have been like thousands of years ago.

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Literate Society

• Nowadays the average businessman would spend most
  of his time in front of a computer screen.
• His wealth is measured by the amount of
  money(printing press) or material possessions he
  has.
• Writing is everywhere, in all professions and
  aspects of life, writing is a necessity.

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How I.T. Shapes Us

• In the past people needed to be physically fit in
  order to operate machines such as the printing
  press.
• Nowadays, however, people are rooted to the spot
  in front of a computer screen.

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Speaker 2

• Jason McCandless

Helpers
Ronan McDonnell
Joseph MacMunn
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Cultural Shaping

• Information Technology has shaped our culture
• The Media
• The Clock
• Our Dependence

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Media
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• The Media is part of Information Technology
• The media uses the internet, TV, radio and
  Newspapers to display information and therefore
  is a form of IT

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Then

• Níl aon tinteáin mar dó thinteáin féin
• Fireplace was the centre point of the home

http//www.laggan.com/smiddy.htm
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Now

• Television is the centre of the home

http//www.laggan.com/smiddy.htm
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September 11th
http//www.dmgrad.com/wtc/WTC_Collection/ WTC.htm
http//www.lmg.pf.bw.schule.de/.../
KONS_WTC_Start.html
http//www.pdc-cuba.org/twin-towers.gif
http//mettajon.tripod.com/ wtc-plane.jpg
http//www.mohicanpress.com/ images/wtc_plane.jpg
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September 11th Headlines
http//www.september11news.com/WorldPapersUK.htm
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The Markets
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• Current US Presidential campaigns
• American News creating paranoia

http//www.exploitboston.com/.../
howard-dean/index6.html
http//www.lysator.liu.se/.../ht03/
bowling_for_columbine
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The Clock
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The clock is IT

• It is a piece of technology that provides us with
  time information
• Information technology is defined as the use of
  mechanical, electronic or other means to display
  or store information

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The ancients

• The sundial
• They didnt consider that Time is money

http//science.msfc.nasa.gov/.../
watch/earth1999.jpg
http// zebu.uoregon.edu/js/ast221/
lectures/lec04.html
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The clock

• The Europeans
• Time is money
• Appointments
• I am speaking to you for 3 minutes
• We dont eat when were hungry

http//shop.innercite.com/giftsdirect/
product346.html
http//www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/
controle/sangre.htm
http//home.howstuffworks.com/ digital-clock.htm
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Dependence On IT
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No longer dependent on nature

• E.g. clock we no longer rely on the sun to give
  us time information
• Work is no longer sunrise to sunset

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Now dependent on Information Technology

• Modern systems couldnt operate without the
  information technologies like computers behind
  them
• Air Traffic Control and stealth bombers for
  example

www.lagmonster.org/wtc/ humorpics/plane.jpg
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Y2K
http//www.btinternet.com/cfr.systems/
latest4.htm

• People get paranoid when there is a chance that
  the IT may fail
• Millennium bug

http//www.rense.com/ufo/NEWY2KBAN2.gif
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Technology decided where people should spend
money

• Billions of dollars were spent to fix the
  problems with the technology

http//www.delirius.com/tapis/ affiches/dollars-.j
pg
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• Because we depend on information technology, we
  have been shaped by it.

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Speaker 3
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• Amy Lee

Helpers
Conor Kelly
Mark McCann
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Business

• In Business area
• Business companies are dependant Information
  Technology
• Use I.T. to make more accurate decisions

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How I.T. shapes us through business?

• Stock Market
• Shift of power from away from Government

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Currency

• Originally Government can control the value of a
  currency
• By issuing more money the currency weakens
• Reasons
• Increase Exports
• More competitive curreny

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Stock Market
Investors attack a countrys currency
Countrys Currency is devalued
Economy of Country is weakened
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Science Medicine

• The Human Genome Project is a superior example of
  the powerful impact by Information Technology.
• Using IT (i.e. books on previous research in that
  area), it was possible to map the human genome.
• How this shapes us??? Eventually we will be
  able to cure fatal diseases such as cancer and
  remove birth defects e.g. Diabetes

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Human Genome Project
Humans are shaped by Information Technology
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Human Genome Project(Graphic)
www.wi.mit.edu/.../ nap_feature_nhgri_041403.html
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Summary

• In countless regions, we are highly completely
  dependant on Information Technology, and
  therefore, are shaped by Information technology

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Group Summary

• Mark has shown that even the most basic forms of
  I.T. shape society.
• Jason has shown that media has shaped our culture
  and therefore our society.
• Amy has shown that I.T. also shapes society
  through business and medicine.