Mobile Computing
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Mobile Computing
Jared Myers
INF 103
Melanie Davis
July 11, 2011
Mobile Computing
Computers made most people apprehensive less than a decade ago. My Mom finally got her first computer five years ago at the age of seventy-eight to correspond through email after learning the basics at Church. Most people could however, see their reliance coming although not many dreamed of the capabilities they would provide by 2011. For example, when my Grandmother passed away in 1976 the cell phone was just being pioneered and the cost was thirty nine hundred dollars. “The initial model, the DynaTAC 8000X, weighed nearly two pounds and cost $3995” (Azalma, Leydoig, Nbrewer, Nmolnar Rnarayan, 2010). In fact, MP3 technology would not exist for another ten years. There would be no way for her to see the first version of Microsoft Windows coming nine years later. “On November 20, 1985, two years after the initial announcement, Microsoft ships Windows 1.0. Now, rather than typing MS DOS commands, you just move a mouse to point and click your way through screens, or “windows”. Retrieved July 11, 2011 from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/history. People born before 1980 to this day “are not considered a part of the digital society” (Palfrey & Gasser, 2008). I had two years left in high school when my Grandmother passed away and she wanted me to go right to college. Thirty-five years later technology and asynchronous learning has allowed me to do so. Mobile computing not only plays a role in my higher education it provides the vehicle, which allows me to do so.
The capabilities that computers allow us today are vast, varied and more and more geared towards our mobile society. We drive our cars, trucks or motorcycles to school, work and play. From the library, office and golf course we are constantly on the move. Wireless internet enables us to access the World Wide Web on the go. We can communicate from a kid’s soccer game to colleagues and...
Jared Myers
INF 103
Melanie Davis
July 11, 2011
Mobile Computing
Computers made most people apprehensive less than a decade ago. My Mom finally got her first computer five years ago at the age of seventy-eight to correspond through email after learning the basics at Church. Most people could however, see their reliance coming although not many dreamed of the capabilities they would provide by 2011. For example, when my Grandmother passed away in 1976 the cell phone was just being pioneered and the cost was thirty nine hundred dollars. “The initial model, the DynaTAC 8000X, weighed nearly two pounds and cost $3995” (Azalma, Leydoig, Nbrewer, Nmolnar Rnarayan, 2010). In fact, MP3 technology would not exist for another ten years. There would be no way for her to see the first version of Microsoft Windows coming nine years later. “On November 20, 1985, two years after the initial announcement, Microsoft ships Windows 1.0. Now, rather than typing MS DOS commands, you just move a mouse to point and click your way through screens, or “windows”. Retrieved July 11, 2011 from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/history. People born before 1980 to this day “are not considered a part of the digital society” (Palfrey & Gasser, 2008). I had two years left in high school when my Grandmother passed away and she wanted me to go right to college. Thirty-five years later technology and asynchronous learning has allowed me to do so. Mobile computing not only plays a role in my higher education it provides the vehicle, which allows me to do so.
The capabilities that computers allow us today are vast, varied and more and more geared towards our mobile society. We drive our cars, trucks or motorcycles to school, work and play. From the library, office and golf course we are constantly on the move. Wireless internet enables us to access the World Wide Web on the go. We can communicate from a kid’s soccer game to colleagues and...