Introduction - Summary of the first Lecture

Humans have a boon a gift of knowledge, and to use what they learnt in a way for further survival. What they learnt can be an experience or a concept or may even be a creation of a tool for a purpose. Learning is a process that it is based on the effects that appeared in the past and also the conceptual analysation of how it would affect the future. All this is nothing but Technology. New technology survives on using it for a purpose. Without a purpose a piece of technology is useless. Or let’s say it can never be called a technology in the first place.

Things get complex, we need control over them so we use something like technology to take control, and in this lecture I have learnt the various technologies in relation to digitalisation or let’s say something that can not be achieved without the help of a computer.

Since computers are something to do with how we think and how we used our memory or a process which calculates complex mathematical stuff or something that can use the capabilities of another physical technology in repeating it as a bulk, say something like the telephone and the internet that was actually achieved by the computers on the basis of communication technology of basic telephone. So as of today technology could be based on mingling of multiple technologies together.

Since then the applications have gone wide enough, great people could obviously calculate what would be know as the future. The creative minds could represent stuff to general applications of a technology such as in the movies could give a purpose to how a technology could be further used and give it an abstract purpose. Where is this all leading to?

It is obviously interaction of these technologies that we are concentrating on. So as of today you could just be sitting in a garage and create a tool that could be distributed world wide and create a revolution. To do that we need to know where or what our technology is for or again know a purpose of a technology that we want to create.

Communication technology is one of those technologies that was developed and sill developing as of today. I could speak to my parents over a chat program form Australia to India instantly I can even see them through a web cam and speak to them through the internet. It’s like a fantasy world coming real. All we are doing her is speaking to machine through words to make this possible, mingling of multiple technologies again. Like webcam, mic , speaker are all different technologies that are coming together using computers.

We have the power of converting basic words that is otherwise called programs or in larger aspect called software to let machines themselves to speak with us. There is an application of what I am speaking about say Chat Bots. Some thing you could speak with as a friend, but actually it’s been controlled by a machine its creation lies in basic words. The lecture emphasis the combination of communication, different media, interactive means and computing technologies as a convergence.