Presentation on Computers and Society by Adeeso Adetoye

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Adeeso Adetoye, [email protected]

A presentation by Adeeso Adetoye

July 2011


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Introduction

What is a society?

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Introduction

What is acomputer?

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Brief History: ComputersS/No Year Story Features

1 Early40s

Discovery of vacuum tubes led tofirst generation computers

Huge (size of a whole room), Slow, Expensive,Undependable, Regular Overheating.

2 Late50s

Transistors were discovered tocreate the second generation

Faster, more reliable, cheaper, smaller

3 Mid 60s Advent of ICs brought about thethird generation of computers

Miniaturization, Increased speed and computationalpower. Introduction of keyboards and monitors.Introduction of Operating Systems

4 Early70s

Intel scientists invented themicroprocessor

Personal Computers became possible. IBMintroduced in 1981

5 Mid 80s Microsoft released Windows OS Graphical User Interface.

6 Mid 90s The Internet was commercialised. WorldWide Web, VoIP

7 90s Internet companies like Amazon,E-bay, Yahoo, Google werefounded

Online shopping, Aunction, Web searching, E-mails,Instant messengers

8 2000s Wikipedia, Facebook, Youtube,Twitter, ipod, ipad, etc werecreated

Social networking, Entertainment sharing

9 Several scientists andorganisations are researching intoArtificial Intelligence

Voice and natural language recognition, robotics,game playing, expert systems

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Relationship between Computersand Societies

Computerswere enablersof societalwishes andchanges

Computers areboth enablersand drivers of societal

changes

1970s

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Computers have changed thesociety!

Yesterday Today

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The society is still changing

Today Tomorrow

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Some ways our lives have changed:Nigeria

ATM - 2004

1. Reduced cash carrying2. Withdrawals at any time3. Security issues

Blackberry - 2008

1. BBM chat2. Mobile office3. Class differentiation

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Timelines

Today

15 years ago

GoogleFacebook iPodiPad

ATMs in NigeriaGSM in Nigeria

15 yearsfrom now

Yusuf robotsNgozi computersAdejare operating systemxxxxxxxxxx

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The word is INNOVATION!

Some steps that will help

ReadDream bigPlanStop to think Pray

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General Market trends

OutsourcingGlobalisation of products and marketsGlobalisation of competitionCentralisation of support activitiesWorking from homeRemoval of retailers (de-mediation)Enterprise Resource PlanningManagement dashboards and Decision making systems

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What can I do?

IT consultantSoftware developerNetwork engineerDatabase administratorAnimator/ Game developerWeb designerSystems administrator, etc

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Appendix

Use of computers in some other

industries

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BankingSlogan State in

NigeriaBest Practice Area of

Computing

Cashless Society ATMs Internet Banking POS

Mobile Banking

Security Advanced ATM Electronic Kiosk

Programming,Database,Infrastructure,

Networking

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MedicineSlogan State in

NigeriaBest Practice Area of

Computing

Digital Medicine Database for allhealth workers

Datamanagement

Filmless Society

Computeraided sensitivity Gene

technology

Programming,Infrastructure,Databases

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EntertainmentSlogan State in Nigeria Best Practice Area of

Computing

eEntertainment Social media(Facebook,Nairaland)

Games (PlayStation, Phonegames)

Multimedia(Music, Films)

iReport (CNN,

online news,youtube) Gadgets (iPad,iPod, BlackBerry)

GamesProgramming,

Hollywood

(Video editing,Stunts,Animations)

Gadget design

Programming,Infrastructure

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GovernanceSlogan State inNigeria Best Practice Area of Computing

eGovernance RevenueCollection(Lagos)

Sim cardregistration National ID(Aborted)

VotersRegistration

Social SecurityNumber

Fingerprint

Integration

Databases,Programming

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