Week 20

This week would be our last class with Miss Chinnu, we went through a lot of intresting topics on futurology and were given a number of activities to be done.

Activity 1

Find the current number of users

Mobile phone: 5.31 billion

Facebook: 2.91 billion

Twitter: 206 million

There is no certainway to know if these statistics are accurate as the numbers constantly and consistently change along with their industries. The number of users can skyrocket one year and plummit the next.

Activity 2

True or False

•Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. FALSE

•"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 TRUE

•"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 TRUE

•"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 TRUE

•"640K ought to be enough for anybody." --Bill Gates, 1981 TRUE

Activity 3

Identify typical hard drive capacity and processor speed equivalent

Activity 4

Explain the following in three or less sentences

• Quantum Computing:

Quantum computing is the study of how to use phenomena in quantum physics to create new ways of computing. Quantum computing is made up of qubits. Unlike a normal computer bit, which can be 0 or 1, a qubit can be either of those, or a superposition of both 0 and 1.

• Light Based Processors:

Also known as optical computing or photonic computing, light-based computing is the usage of photons (or light) from lasers or diodes for computational purposes. For the most part, electronics and computers utilize electrons for computation.

• Nanotechnology:

Nanotechnology is the term given to those areas of science and engineering where phenomena that take place at dimensions in the nanometre scale are utilised in the design, characterisation, production and application of materials, structures, devices and systems.

• DNA based Computing:

The performing of computations using biological molecules, rather than traditional silicon chips. With DNA, the way the molecules can be triggered to bind with each other can be used to create a circuit of logic gates in test tubes. In one method, called DNA strand displacement, the input of DNA that binds to a DNA logic gate displaces a strand of DNA that serves as the output.

Activity 5

Identify a task that might be useful at home with the processing power you described in Activity 3

Going according to Moore's law, the ammount of storage in the future will be very abundant and would likely kill the need for cloud storage (such as Gdrive or iCloud) for the average user, there would also be near instantaneous file transfers and loading speeds in home-console games.

Activity 6

Write about Green Computing , Ubiquitous Computing , Big Data

Green Computing:

Green computing is the use of computers and their resources in an environmentally responsible and eco-friendly manner. In a broader sense, it's the study of how to design, engineer, manufacture, use, and dispose of computing systems in a way that has a low environmental impact. Less energy is used, waste is reduced, and sustainability is promoted. The goal of green computing is to lower the carbon footprint of the Information Technology and Systems buisness and its connected industries.

Ubiquitous Computing:

Ubiquitous computing is a computing paradigm in which information processing is linked to each action or object encountered. It entails linking electronic devices, as well as incorporating microprocessors to communicate information. Devices that use ubiquitous computing are always connected and always available.

Ubiquitous computing focuses on learning by eliminating computing's complexity and increasing efficiency while using computing for various daily activities.

Big Data:

Big Data is an assortment of information that is immense in volume, yet developing dramatically with time. It is data that is so enormous size and intricacy that none of conventional data management tools can store it or process it productively. Big Data is additionally a data however with gigantic size.

The New York Stock Exchange, which creates around one terabyte of new trade data per day, is an example of Big Data.