"Knowledge economy and Information society" course seminar 2 2008

1. “ All the World’s a Stage” Ian Miles – Manchester Institute of Innovation Research MBS - University of Manchester Ian.Miles@mbs.ac.uk Knowledge Economy and Information Society 2 – Information Society Evolution

2. Course material should be available on webct – but in the meantime go to http:// www.freewebs.com/mioir/keisintro.htm

14. Evolution of Computing: Mark Weiser’s Overview source: http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html Sales/Year Envelope curve (systems of all types ) MAINFRAME: one computer serves many people PC: one ----- computer per person UBIQUITY: --- many --------- computers per person

15. Information Society v1.0 - v4.0 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Pdf/2720070203.pdf Distant Local Mobile Ubiquitous 1960s/ 70s 1980s/ mid90s mid1990s/ 2000s 2010s?/?

20. Four “phases” of Information Society Islands Archipelago Continent Ecosystem 1960s/70s 1980s/90s 1990s/2000s ?2010 Distant  Local  Mobile  Ubiquitous

23. End of Presentation (if there is not time for the remaining slides!)

24. Moore’s Law (original) Number of transistors on a chip – Gordon Moore (Intel) noted in 1965 that this was doubling every 18 months (these data – 2 years) This example from: http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0593.html?printable=1 Try a google/ google image search on “Moore’s Law”.

25. Moore’s Law (original) Number of transistors on a chip – Image from Wikipedia Try a google/ google image search on “Moore’s Law”.

26. Moore’s Law: Computer Power From a Scientific American article 1960 1970 1980 1990  Millions of Instructions per second (MIPS) 100 10 1.0 0.1 .01 Mainframe Minicompr PC Embedded

27. Moore’s Law (extended) Estimate of PROCESSING POWER (and cost) Kurzweil Image from Wikipedia “ Moore's Law of Integrated Circuits was not the first, but the fifth paradigm to provide accelerating price-performance. Computing devices have been consistently multiplying in power (per unit of time) from the mechanical calculating devices used in the 1890 U.S. Census, to Turing's relay-based "Robinson" machine that cracked the Nazi enigma code, to the CBS vacuum tube computer that predicted the election of Eisenhower, to the transistor-based machines used in the first space launches, to the integrated-circuit-based personal [computers]. “

28. Power increase, price decrease 1.6 years

29. Similar trends – sometimes even more rapid – for many other elements of IT Even Hard Disc Drives!

30. More attractive technology – cheaper, powerful: liable to be adopted