Reach into your pocket and pull out your mobile phone. Take a minute to think – where would you be without your mobile?This is Information and communications technology (ICT) in action, a perfect example of ICT weaving its way into every corner of our lives.
It is ICT that powers the social networks that our current society is gravitating towards. Gone are the days of pigeons and snail mail (letters) and here are the days of email, and sms. ICT refers to
all the technology used to handle telecommunications, broadcast media, intelligent building management systems, audiovisual processing and transmission systems, and network-based control and monitoring functions.Technology is behind nearly everything we do, from the computer animation in movies to advances in medical treatment and research, to the preparation and creation of the food we eat.
Our dependence on ICT matches its growth, as technology steadily revolutionizes our way of life. ICT and its uses are limited only by the extent of our imagination.
Although ICT is often considered an extended synonym for information technology (IT), its scope is more broad. ICT has more recently been used to describe the convergence of several technologies and the use of common transmission lines carrying very diverse data and communication types and formats.
Converging technologies that exemplify ICT include the merging of audiovisual, telephone and computer networks through a common cabling system. Internet service providers (ISP) commonly provide Internet, phone and television services to homes and businesses through a single optical cable. The elimination of the telephone networks has provided huge economic incentives to implement this convergence, which eliminates many of the costs associated with cabling, signal distribution, user installation, servicing and maintenance costs.
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Sources:
http://www.ichoosetechnology.com.au/home/what-is-ict
http://www.techopedia.com/definition/24152/information-and-communications-technology-ict
https://youtu.be/u-hu6lMemB0
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