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The evolutionary economics that started in 1980's played vital role in evolution of Information Technology.
1) In the beginning Information Technology was just a tool used by people in their business organizations to manage their needs.
2) IT was used to retrieve and transmit information and data.IT was also used to manipulate existing data.
3) IT was used in education department.It helped improve literacy rate because people wanted to learn about the new tools of IT , its application ,how do they work etc etc.
Information technology helped a lot in development of human thinking which impacted our societies because IT is not about computers only, it involves medical, law, business, engineering, construction,food processing,health etc etc.IT professional work in all of these fields and many others too like speech therapies and psychology.
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1) Information Technology enabled us to better understand our problems.So it helped us to plan better and enabled us make much better decisions.
2) With the help of IT we are able to better manage our resources at any level.
3) People from different countries and of different casts and colors experienced other people and their opinions and helped them socialize better.IT has created cultural diversity.
4) It has greatly improved efficiency rate of operations.
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NOW LETS TALK ABOUT THE SCOPE OF IT IN 2016 :
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE : 2 MAIN COMPONENTS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS
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hardware part of IT can even make you a NASA flight engineer or you may also end up working for FBI cracking iphones(yes,that is also hardware part of IT) .Basically you will still be able to interact with the software side of things in your career , you should have those skills.its a requirement sometimes.
google this :"Instruction Sets and Computer Architecture"
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Computer Networking is also another field related to both hardware and Software Information Systems.To become a network manager at a corporate business you will need specialization in this field and you may also have to learn some programming languages.Jobs related to network management are among the highest paying jobs in U.S and Europe.
When talking about the software side of things,there are two main fields here :
System software and Application Software:
Most of the electronic products available today in the market have some software running in them it may be System Software or Application Software.Teams who make these products are not all of the same field ,some of them are hardware engineers and some of them are software engineers . |
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You might be one of them and your job will be to develop software for the particular hardware. |
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These are the two components upon which Information Technology divides its-self into various fields of study and one can find his/her career in any of those.
Google this :"Health Information Systems"
At the end of the day it comes down to this question :
Do you like technology ?
and are you passionate about it ?
if the answer to both the questions is Yes then you might do good in Information Technology otherwise, if you don't love IT ,you cant go far.