Introduction to the Information Age

ICT in the information age

Life in the information has developed an undeniable amount in the past few years, with things that were unthinkable being able to be done now! If you were to time travel back to the time of the first computer, I doubt you would even know what it was. Traditionally computers were used for computing instead of the main use today which is most likely use of online sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google. Once they discovered a few things to do on a computer, it seemed like an endless trail of things to do kept on coming.

Working Styles

Life in information age has changed the way that people work with it going from people working in an office with no computer and only typewriters to do their work, to many offices now being full of state of the art computers, the difference between around 40 years of technology is overwhelming. It is clear that now days an office would not be able to function without a computer to store data, type things up and use spreadsheets, but not so long ago, nothing was done by a computer, it was mainly done by hand. Storage was simple, with them using filing cabinets instead of a hard drive to store their data. 

It is not hard to see how working styles have moved on, with people usually using computers over paper, as it is more convenient. No one really knows when the first computer was officially made, but it is suggested that in 1910 Henry Babbage finished the project after his father had given him the idea, which he formulated. Computers then developed from there, going from huge to small.

I believe that computers had a huge impact on the way people work in offices because they help make things faster to do. If someone from modern times was to be put in an office from about 40 years ago, it would almost be foreign to them because many businesses and offices are highly dependant on computers, you’re able to store everything you need on a computer, or a laptop which is portable and you can take it anywhere.

Working styles have developed a lot, people are now more dependant than ever on computers in offices. With newer computers like Macs which everyone seems to be beginning to use being able to do so many things which seemed impossible to people before are now easy to do.

Email is a main change within the working world because before computers they would send letters which for a response would take quite a long time, whereas to send an email now you can send it in a matter of minutes and receive it back quickly too. Email has formed the ICT world, it makes it so much easier to communicate with people throughout the world. It allows people to make connections a lot easier as there is not much effort involved, it is also more environmentally friendly because there is no paper used. Another change is presentations, whereas before presentations would have been done by paper and all drawn out, now it can be done by computer making it easier and faster to do. Presentations can now be more fun and entertaining with things such as multimeida clips being added in.

Another example of techology in offices is the different software they have, they have all different software and programmes for offices, this makes it more convenient and easy for the user to use. I personally think that this is an exceptional change because now you have specific programmes for different things you’d have to do.

Overall techonology in working places such as offices has changed a phenominal amount, with the offices back in 1970’s being nearly unrecognisable now. You’re able to do most of the office tasks through a computer making it so much easier to work within this environment.