Introduction
What digital technological plumbing does show is that there is an interesting and new method of communication. It would be a brave person who would attempt to predict exactly what form the technology will take to support communications between individuals and organizations, but it would be an even braver organization that ignored this phase of the information revolution. Companies are investing many billions of dollars in replacing existing copper wires with optical fibres capable of carrying many millions of times as much traffic. In addition, the introduction of an agreed standard for the transmission of digital information, asynchronous transmission mode (ATM), has meant that companies can afford to make huge investments in building the silicon switches and routers that can manage the gigabytes of information that will need to be transmitted to enable this communication to take place.
Discussion Section
The Networked digital technology proposes many advantages for users and businesses connecting people with resources. The networked digital technology bound to a traditional physical form such as a book or map (or even a service delivered by a person) must be distributed through a transportation process and sophisticated systems have been developed to put this into practice. The pricing of physical goods and services is partly attributable to the cost of the materials and production and partly to the cost of moving the goods/service giver from production site to consumer. The economic realities of this environment have defined business decision making for two centuries and led to the establishment of broadly similar production, distribution and marketing systems around the globe (Baudrillard 43).
The Networked digital technology hides many threats and problems for a user. One of the main problems which leads to information damage and stress is viruses spread over the Networked digital technology. The problem of computer viruses aggravates around the world. A few years ago there were much less viruses than today, and they are emerging at a higher rate. They stopped being a mere academic curiosity and turned into an unceasing, global problem. Computer viruses can be spread on practically any computing platform. The attacks of computer viruses are amplifying in frequency and sophistication, which is a grave menace both to the Networked digital technology economy and to national security. At the same time, measures taken to defeat computer viruses are not sufficient. The spread of computer viruses has posed many problems for the modern-day society (Poster 65). The spread of computer viruses brought many problems to the society. Business was also one of the areas that have been affected. The world’s largest corporations and governments also proved to be the victims of the problems with computer virus. Though the shut was temporal, the very fact of computer viruses presence had a negative impact on the functioning of the system. The major problem is the escalating economic toll. At present, this toll is mounting quickly. The recent estimations show that an average spending on the problem has reached about 10-billion dollars during the recent times of the year. According to the researcher, the biggest problem that is present in the system is caused by the denial of the system. The major problem is caused by the denial of service of e-mail. As a result of the numerous challenges people have to shut down their e-mail systems. The major reason is the fact that they overloaded with additional workload. This fact helps to keep the situation under control (Elmer 76).
Speaking about health effects, it is important to mention negative impact if PCs on health o children and young adults. The joke on one computer is not a problem, but when we are talking about thousands of computers that are diagnosed with virus the problem becomes very serious. There are many research firms that are specializing in finding the major problems that exist within the computer sector. The major problem has been accentuated by the company’s analysts, Samir Bhavnani. The latest virus is known under the nicknamed “the love bug” (Poster 54). This virus serves to be a cause of the many problems. In the majority of cases these problem can result in two-billion dollars damages. Many of these damages are present during the first day of circulation. According to the researcher, the figure is projected to rise steadily over the coming week. The one-week impact of this virus can bring a number of outcomes. The estimations have amounted to approximately 10-billion dollars (Baudrillard 75).
The calculations show that this number is based upon the total number of recipients of the e-mail. At present, approximately 45-million people are reported to receive e-mail with similar messages. The estimations show that about half of the people are reported to experience significant business delay. The median economic impact is concerned with the reason why people feel to be pretty conservative. The estimations show that people receive approximately 100-dollars per user. The recent estimations show that the virus spread to about 70 percent of U-S companies. The virus has been spread during the 10 hours of the research. The major part the largest corporations in the United State include Ford, General Motors and Microsoft. These companies are projected to do many things. First of all, they are forced to shut down their e-mail systems. The action is temporal is intended to fight the virus. The event has a far-reaching outcome. The major outcome is the delay in the computer systems at the Pentagon (Elmer 65).
The “love bug” can be regarded as one of the most widespread viruses. This virus is one of the most serious viruses that have been seen by the humanity. The problem is one of the most serious ones that are actually present in the society. The research implies that “love bug” is already serving as a reminder of the numerous problems that are present in the modern society. The problem is reasoned by the combination of computer security measures. The rapid growth of the technology industry is often caused by the desire of the company to increase its profits (Poster 66).
Social inequality is evident in computer attacks and threats coming from the WWW. The problem has been often accentuated by the Networked digital technology security experts. Many of these people hold to the idea that the most effective way of fighting problems is to spread the viruses across the territory of the country. The idea can be best achieved with training end-users. These are trained about the dangers of unsolicited e-mail. Many young people are known to be traditionally taught not to talk with strangers and computer users. Under the circumstances like these the world must learn to be careful. In other words, people should be very careful while opening e-mail messages or attachments. The major parts of these things come from unfamiliar people or places that are located in distant parts of the world (Elmer 24).
For modern society, the Networked digital technology proposes new ways of communication and interaction. The weblog or a blog is a type of the networked digital technology site created for personal purposes. The first blogs appeared in the 1990s, when the software for conversations with threads became available for the community. Certainly, in that time, there were no PCs, and communication on-line was technically laborious process. It wasn’t until 1986 when the power and the possibilities that the Networked digital technology can bring were finally realized, and more and more people became interested in using it in all spheres of life. The creator of the first blog is Justine Hall, a freelance journalist. He opened the first private page in 1994. Also, in 1994 users were already able to order pizza online and enjoy many other services provided by the Networked digital technology (Walsh 51).
Organizations and institutions felt obliged to create web-pages to reach out to their customers on the net. World Wide Web was the solution to the problem which arose at the end of 80’s, when people realized that there should have been the way to organize the data to make it available to everyone and easily classified. As a result, WWW became an international medium for all Networked digital technology users. Later, first browsers appeared, the first ones were Cello and Netscape Navigator. Today, there exists a variety of different browsers, thus the users have a wide choice and can even customize them according to their tastes (Hillis 42).
The next step in development of blogging is virtual communities. Virtual communities represent a unique communication environment with its own rules and principles located in cyberspace. Virtual communities became possible only with the development of the Networked digital technology and information technologies. One of biggest pitfalls of the cyberspace has been that it gave rise to one more form of divide amongst the society, termed as digital divide. But at the same time, the cyberspace has provided many opportunities to the mankind to spread education and disseminate knowledge through a number of channels including private and corporate blogs (King 66). One of the main threats in virtual communities is identity theft (Baudrillard 12).
Even while managing an organization or community, cyberspace lends a helping hand. Development of virtual communities on the cyberspace, within a section of the society, group of friends, peer groups etc. are some of the examples which have become quite prevalent in our society today. Though earlier as well, we used to have the concept of the gathering of like-minded people, parties, clubs etc. but those were more formal in nature. The main problem with this definition is that it does not take into account social relations and unique communication emerged in cyberspace (Hillis 55).
The compilation of courses will also be greatly eased by the importing of material and its customization-techniques already well documented in developments such as on demand publishing and printing in the US. This suggests academics will be able to tap into educational resource banks and draw content down into development portfolios. Several national and European projects are now seeking to develop just such technologies. The digital network can be present and possibly used in a variety of universes that are defined by the entities that inhabit them and their main functions, as relevant for the impact study. irrespective of the definition or scope used, impact studies have considered the Networked digital technology as a self-contained space (Baudrillard 55).
The other possible communication forms have come into the picture almost exclusively from the perspective of their substitution, or as testimony of the past. This might be rather short-sighted. Even when digital communication will have pervaded all spaces and become vastly predominant, one can hardly imagine that there will be no room for analog communications, at least as long as the said spaces will be inhabited by natural, i.e. non-genetically manipulated, human beings and other living organisms. This information landscape can be further analyzed using criteria such as ease of handling and ease of interpretation (Poster 54). Thus hard data is easy to manage, to manipulate and to interpret but very difficult to collect, whilst library material is, when all is considered, easy to collect but very difficult to organize for effective exploitation. This process is defined as a social space in a given time and location, and operates through analog and digital communication fields (Baudrillard 74).
Identity and place play a crucial role in blogs defining unique communication patterns and interaction between users. The continuing releases of both the Microsoft and Netscape WWW browsers will greatly extend the ways in which individuals can communicate. These enhanced facilities will be available for communications as well as those between individuals in separate organizations. In addition to the simple exchange of e-mail messages it will be possible to have a private on-line dialogue with a group of people irrespective of where they are located. As the sophistication and variety of these new forms of communications increases it will take longer for the technical standards to become defined and globally adopted. There is an irresistible trend towards the development of new methods of virtual and impersonal communicating with customers: banks and software houses are desperately working together to produce secure payment systems; multimedia companies are desperately working to deliver these services over new forms of communication such as interactive television, satellite television, telephone developments and a whole host of other technological combinations.
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