OF
THE HUMAN LIFE
Digitization is the process of converting
information into a digital format. This process has over the years has
tremendous change in the culture and way of life of people.
•In
recent times, many cell phone owners who want to burn calories have been able
to do so by using their cell phones to calculate the number of steps they take
in each day to achieve desired results
So digitization has over the years helped
in greater revenue and integration with business applications, global
interconnectivity, and supporting preservation.
Revenue Generation:
The Census Bureau of the Department of
Commerce announced in August 2016 that the “estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce
sales for the second quarter of 2016, was $97.3 billion, an increase of 4.5
percent from the first quarter of 2016.
Global interconnectivity:
Have you ever left your cell phone somewhere and how did your
Feel?
Can you go a day without your cell phone?
Well, Pew Research observes that “As
cellphones and smartphones become more widely adopted and play a larger role in
people’s daily communications, their owners often treat them like body
appendages”.
The world has become so connected because
almost everything is now digitized and so connectivity has become easy. You can
connect on video live with someone as far as thousands of miles away.
Digitization also helped shaped education
and supported preservation. Many people have signed on to online schools and
others are using digitization to preserve important documents ranging from
photos and arts at the museums and
scholarly articles and books at the libraries.
So do you think we have seen it all as
far as digitization/ What do you think the future is for us and digitization?
Hi Collins, we kind of touched on it in class but this is a huge topic so you are going to have to take a look at it from a specific angle. You could talk about how cell phones/computers affect our sleep or level of physical activity, or maybe research how texting affects social relationships. You could outline the jobs currently being lost to digitization/advancing tech.
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