Three Emerging Technologies that Will Change the World by Paul McGillivary
I was speaking with a friend the other night about his great grandfather. His great grandfather was born in 1875. He lived until 1965. Can you imagine the technology that this man saw come online? Let me name a few: the typewriter, the electric dental drill, the telephone, the phonograph, the... Nano Technology Probably the most interesting and frightening of the emerging technologies is nano technology. ... Most of this is done through RFID technology. ... There is talk of implanting devices that will carry health information.

Computers Rule Our Lives? by Jennifer Kittell
Whether we like computers or not they invade our homes, work, and school. Setting aside the internet for a second, computers decide when we can access easy information like an address book, homework assignments, and even a calculator. How many times have you used the excuse “My computer ate my... People make these programs so that they hook even the most anti-computer person into computers and then convince him that he ‘needs’ to keep adding new “toys” to his computer. ... I have spent so much time in front of the computer in the past year that when I am bored I just sit at the...

How Quantum Computers Will Work by Mohammad Qureshi
Quantum computers open up a new era for high-speed computations. They will be 1,000,000,000 times faster than current silicon-based computers. Today’s high-speed computer sitting in front of you is fundamentally no different from its 30-tonne ancestors, which were equipped with some 18,000... In a quantum computer, the fundamental unit of information (called a quantum bit or qubit), is not binary but rather more quaternary in nature. ... The power of quantum Computers: As the technology evolves, several factors work together to push us toward quantum computing, and push out the classical...

Palm Pilot PDA-Your Life In Your Pocket by M Johnson
Palm pilots used to be big, bulky, slow and could barely hold phone numbers of all the people you knew. In today's fast moving world of technology a PDA can store thousands of contacts, schedules and appointments, but it does not stop there. These little pocket PC units can play MP3 music files,... Many manufacturers of computer and computer related electronics produce a version of their handheld PC. ... A user friendly handheld computer is just what these are. ... Just follow the instructions on the screen and enter in the information.

The Tech Heads Need To Make It Simple For the Average Human by Jesse S. Somer
The tech-heads need to build new software that makes obtaining information and collective communication a simple process for the average human. Being the total opposite to a technical person, it is hard to imagine future Internet software advances. The techno-humans have come up with incredible... Harris once said, “The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” Computer and Internet specialists have to realize that they have gone so deep into their fields that they now can no longer see what the computer world looks...

Architectural Rendering by Alison Cole
Architectural rendering basically means preparing and presenting a proposed design of a building for the approval of the person who wants to construct it. It may be a commercial or a residential unit. Formerly, the architects and designers would just draw bare outline sketches of the various... With the advent of computer aided design (CAD) and the related multimedia based architectural technologies, the process of presenting how the prospective building will actually appear after it is built, has undergone a sea change.

Electronic Discovery by Marcus Peterson
Electronic discovery is the detection of information in the digital format. Electronic information is retrieved from computer-based systems such as hard drives, CD ROMs, floppy disks, tapes and other electronic backup devices that may contain data. It involves the use of certain technologies... Information gathered from electronic sources can be used in litigation that can make or break companies. ... Electronic extraction has to be done by professionals using proper tools, so that the information, especially the meta-data of the document, remains intact.

Grid Computing by Sandro Azzopardi
Most industries today have become so dynamic that organisations have to consistently seek and adapt to change, in order to survive and prosper. Factors like more diversified customer preferences, technological advances, increased competitive threats and an intensified global economy are among... However in these last years, an increasing number of organisations are early adopting and trying to reap benefits from this technology. ... In these last years many ICT departments have been even asked to cut their budgets while they were expected to continue providing an appropriate information...

Search Technologies to Solve the Problem of Information Security by Alena Semeshko
Lately the problem of securing the information contained in the enterprise’s data space becomes more and more critical. It’s the information hidden from common access that is most valuable. Specialists in the field of information security distinguish two types of potential threats: external and... An alert system is set in a way that when a certain keyword or phrase appears in search results on a user computer, the corresponding information is sent to the organization’s information security person.

End-User Programming - Modelling of Information by Peter Hale
An important area of research is a technique for End User Programming, that of allowing visual modelling of information. This corresponds to the type of work normally undertaken using spreadsheets. This research involves using Semantic Web technologies to enable end user programming. ... Information is created in a visual tree using an Ontology editor, the information is then transformed, and all calculations performed. ... This allows a user to manipulate the information and get immediate feedback on what has changed.