Post on 05-Dec-2014
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Recent trends in theworld of computers – Thought and facts
What is the computer?
Commodore 16 – smartphone
For what purpose the user want to use? Everything or only a few applications?
Mostly only a few application.
Then
- text editing, word processing
- game
- data manipulation
- special applications
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- image manipulation
- data storage
Now
- communication
- game
- data manipulation
- image manipulation
- special applications
- data storage
- text editing, word processing
State: M$ Windows is the most spreaded, almost everybody use this.
And the reality. . .
Tablets (170 million iPad sold in oct. 2013.)
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Prediction
Number of desktop computers will hardly decrease, – Windows as well
Number of mobile devices will increase – Linux/Unix as well
Present youngs (adults of the future) mostly uses mobile devices and web-based, on-line applications
- in the future will increase the role of mobile application - desktop applications will only a small part of the software market - the largest part of the software market will the targeted, special
applications- the role of desktop GIS will decrease, – will used mostly for analysis
and large-data manipulation- small, flexible targeted GIS softwares will used- web-based GIS technology will rule the GIS- off-line GIS will hardly decrease, on-line GIS will the adequate use of
the GIS applications.
Education – how to teach? What to teach?
Because of the on-line solutions, not the software itself will impor-tant (the mark, the provider or the manufacturer), but the file-format and the interoperability