1. Progress in information technology This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 License. Skills: none IT concepts: technology progress versus technology, progress in storage, electronic and communication technology

2. Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts –Applications –Technology –Implications for Internet skills –Application development –Content creation

3. Information technologies Electronic Storage Communication

4. Technology progress and technology shifts

5. Technology progress 1903 1905

6. Storage: IBM 305 RAMAC, 1956 5 million characters (6 bits each) 50 two-foot-diameter disks $167,850 with no printer A nice house was $15,000 and a coke or candt bar 5 cents

7. Electronics: transistors Three billion transistor integrated circuits (chips) today First integrated circuit, 1959 First transistor, 1948

8. Communication: 1986, NSFNet backbone 56 kbps Today 10 gbps is common

9. The first functioning laser, 1960

10. My first home terminal, 1973, 100 bits per second

11. Progress in information technology This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 License. Skills: none IT concepts: technology progress versus technology, progress in storage, electronic and communication technology

12. A few questions We looked at storage, electronic and communication technology. What other technologies are undergoing dramatic improvement? If the first cars got only 1 mile per gallon, and that doubled every two years, what would our mileage have been 20 years later? Thirty years later?

13. What is punched in this card?