ICT 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Internet Backbone, 3D Printing

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Information Communication Technology
• Course: ICT 202
• Professor: Nicholas Proferes

Document Summary

Awareness that it may be resolvable with information. Analysis of the kind of information that would be useful. Skills necessary to locate and interpret the information. Part of being an ict professional involves having current knowledge of different icts that ultimately facilitates locating and interpreting information. As humans, we"ve been using technologies to augment our information creation, transmission, storage and management for a long time. Icts are often interlinked and build on each other. For example, think about all of the different technologies that go into you making an instagram post. Camera, cell phone hardware, app software, data transmission infrastructure (cellular or wi-fi), compression protocols for images, internet and internet backbone, instagrams" servers, etc. We probably don"t get instagram without earlier smartphones, earlier digital camera technology, etc. A computer is an electronic device, operating under the control of instructions stored in its own memory.