1. Identify one modern technology and discuss its development and discuss what future changes might occur that could have an even greater impact on your life.
2. Identify one environmental and organizational background imperative of a contemporary technology. How might those conditions have influenced that technology’s development?3. Solve (2011) uses the hammer and an example of his concept polypotency; what are some other examples of familiar artifacts?
Explanation:
1- The cell phone is a modern technology that has been developing and gaining new features in addition to being just a device for making phone calls. Currently cell phones perform the same tasks as computers, making it possible to exchange information from the internet, share media, etc.
The development of smartphones will still be significant and will impact even more on the lives of all users, as an essential device for communication at work, and through software developed for cell phones that facilitate human life, such as through the possibility of making purchases , order a taxi, carry out bank transactions, etc.
2- A management information system is a technology aimed at organizations, in order to assist a manager in the decision-making process.
An MIS is an intelligent system that uses a large volume of data and information to generate information and solutions so that a manager has a greater chance of analyzing a scenario in the organization, and makes a more effective decision for the company.
The system is derived from procedures and interaction between people, which generates constant learning and improvement focused on organizational decisions.
MIS was created to assist current organizational management, whose processes derive from a large amount of data and information, in addition to the high competitiveness in the market, which requires decisions to be made quickly, effectively and at the lowest cost.
3- The cell phone and the computer are examples of polypotent technologies, that is, those that are used for purposes greater than those for which they were created, for example, the computer was created to compute data, and the cell phone to make telephone calls, but currently perform functions of being media sharing, communication and leisure equipment.