ICT and modern living
How ICT systems have changed
the way people go about their
daily lives
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Online shopping and searching
for products on websites
• Many people search for and order
services and products using the Internet
• Online stores have databases of their
goods and services which you can access
• You can browse or search for a specific
thing
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Online shopping
• Purchasing goods and services using the
Internet
• Customers browse online catalogues
• They add goods to their virtual shopping
basket/trolley
• They go to the checkout
• They then enter their card (debit or credit)
details and other details, which are encrypted
for security reasons
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Advantages of online
shopping to customers
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Disadvantages of online
shopping to customers
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Advantages of online
shopping to the store
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Disadvantages of online
shopping to the store
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Online booking services
• Low cost airlines and ease of booking
mean many people book flights and
hotels direct
• Can get impartial reports from others
about resorts and hotels
• Can book car rental
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Advantages of booking online
• Book from the comfort of your home
• More time to look for holidays than when at a
travel agent
• Make savings when booking direct because no
travel agent commission to pay
• Read reports of people who have been on the
same holiday that we intend to book
• Arrange our own travel and accommodation
• Find out about the resort before you go
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Disadvantages of booking online
• You have to enter credit/debit card details and
these may not be kept safe
• People could hack into the site and know you
were away and burgle your house
• There is no personal service like at a high street
travel agent
• You could easily enter the wrong information
and book the wrong flights
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Verification of bookings
• You are responsible
for entering booking
details
• You need to carefully
verify data entered
• This is done by a
visual check (i.e.,
proof reading)
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Verification of a booking
Need to check:
• Credit card number entered is correct by comparing it again
with the number on the actual card
• Card expiry date
• All the fields that should have data in them contain data
• All the name and address details are correct – this is
particularly important with flight tickets where the name on
the passport has to match the name on the tickets
• Passport numbers against the numbers on the actual
passports
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Gaming
Require for gaming:
• Fast processor
• Large screen
• Large amount of RAM
• Disk drive with plenty of storage capacity
• High quality graphics card
• High quality sound card
• Large powerful speakers
• Specialist input devices
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Advantages of Gaming
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Young children can learn from them
Can make learning fun
Online games encourage teamwork and social interaction
Well paid employment – games designers and programmers
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Disadvantages of Gaming
• Can be addictive
• Very little physical activity can lead to obesity
• Games can be violent – some reports that this can affect
children
• Waste time – school work may suffer
• Health problems – RSI, backaches, dehydration
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Entertainment
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Digital photograpy
Online gaming/gambling
Social networking.
Watching On Demand TV
Digital Radio
Listening to MP3s
Internet browsing
Online publications
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Education
• Online tutorials – youtube
• Online Assessment – Theory tests for driving, functional skills
tests
• VLE – Virtual Learning environments
• Interactive Whiteboards.
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ICT in daily lives
• Online banking systems
• Social networking
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Facebook
Twitter
MySpace
Bebo
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ICT in daily lives
• Disadvantages of Social Networking
– Employers and schools ban their use because of addiction to them
– Paedophiles have been know to use them to groom their victims
– Young people share too much information and not aware of who can
see them
– Identity theft
– Too many third party apps have access to your data.
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Emerging Technologies
• Artificial intelligence and expert systems
• Biometrics
– Fingerprint scanning, eye scans, face recognition systems, walk
recognition systems used by the police.
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Computer-assisted translation
Quantum cryptography
Vision enhancement – e.g futuristic cars
3D Printing
Virtual reality.