Technology Roadmap Technology: a roadmap for the near future Lucy Madahar Assistant Director Student Services Birmingham City University

Technology Roadmap 1960s and 1970s Audio-cassette and Microfiche

Technology Roadmap 1980s Personal Computer and Computer-Aided Guidance Systems

Technology Roadmap 1990s Internet [aka World Wide Web]

Technology: a roadmap for the near future The Internet Favourites Britannica online Mailing lists Discussion board Personal websites “Surfing the net” Virtual careers resources Basic careers websites Information 24/7 Self help rules

Technology Roadmap Today Web 2.0 and Intelligent Information

Technology: a roadmap for the near future Web 2.0: We make friends, we experience, we network Rich User Experience Social networking Tagging Recommendations Wikis RSS feeds alerts Forums & Blogging E-guidance Podcasting Video streaming Voice-over powerpoint

Technology Roadmap Six Degrees of Separation

Technology: a roadmap for the near future A Day in the Life of Today’s Student 7 hours sleeping 1.5 hours watching TV 3.5 hours online 2.5 hours listening to music 2 hours on the mobile 3 hours in class 2 hours at work 3 hours studying 2 hours eating

Technology: a roadmap for the near future Today’s Generation Y Student Read 8 text books per year View 2300 web pages & 1281 Facebook profiles Write 42 pages for assignments this semester Write 500 pages of

Technology: a roadmap for the near future Harris Review of Careers Education, Information and Guidance within Higher Education Using ICT to improve communications Improving the ICT infrastructure and investing in the ICT needs of careers services Improving information to be readily formatted for delivery via ICT Information to be available 24/7

Technology: a roadmap for the near future Careers Services: Technology and the Future Technology as an agent of change Partnerships Student tracking Website design relationships Career management virtual learning

Technology: a roadmap for the near future Internet R/evolution: a YouTube clip

Technology: a roadmap for the near future Issues and Dangers with Today’s Technology Trust & honesty Quality of our ICT support services Footfall: increase or decrease Libel & litigation Copyright & IPR Invading students’ social space?

Technology: a roadmap for the near future The top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004

Technology: a roadmap for the near future We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist using technologies that haven’t yet been invented in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet

Technology: a roadmap for the near future 1 out of 4 workers today is working for an organisation for whom they have been employed less than 1 year

Technology: a roadmap for the near future More than 1 out of 2 are working for an organisation for whom they have worked less than 5 years

Technology: a roadmap for the near future There are over 106 million registered users of My Space

Technology: a roadmap for the near future If My Space were a country it would be the 11 th largest in the world (between Japan and Mexico)

Technology: a roadmap for the near future The average My Space page is visited 30 times per day

Technology: a roadmap for the near future 2.7 billion searches are performed on Google each month

Technology: a roadmap for the near future The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet

Technology: a roadmap for the near future The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years

Technology: a roadmap for the near future For students starting a 4 year technical degree, this means that half of what they learn in their 1 st year of study will be outdated by their 3 rd year of study

Technology: a roadmap for the near future Work has been completed in the field of fibre optics which enables 10 trillion bits per second down 1 strand of fibre

Technology: a roadmap for the near future 47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year

Technology Roadmap The Future...

Technology: a roadmap for the near future “I think there is a world market for may be 5 computers” Thomas Watson, chair of IBM, 1943

Technology: a roadmap for the near future “640k ought to be enough memory for anybody” Bill Gates, 1981

Technology: a roadmap for the near future “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home” Ken Olson, President/Chair/Founder of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977

Technology: a roadmap for the near future Be Prepared... Anyone and everyone is an expert Information will find you Information is instantaneous Information knows what you want before you do Information technologists not information managers

Technology: a roadmap for the near future The future is here... Touchlight 3D technology Surface computing Tiny TVs Wireless information zones Intelligent mobile phones

Technology: a roadmap for the near future The next 10 years... Faster applications Smaller applications Customisable applications Applications distributed virally Flexible delivery: PC and mobile

Technology: a roadmap for the near future Ordering Pizza in the Future: A lesson for careers information delivery?

Technology: a roadmap for the near future Lucy Madahar Assistant Director, Student Services Birmingham City University