Summary: History of Computing - V • There were a few mishaps that common people and the
authorities, businesses faced
• Connected systems (Internet) transfers the data very
rapidly and it has got its own pros and cons.
• People working stock exchanges or senior citizens want
to connect with others of their own age or maintaining
the digital databases the interconnectedness of the
computers is most essential. This has led to perform
deliver the work in way less time than it would take in
conventional way.
• Computers are definitely the machines that can’t do
wrong but the programs which it runs written by the
programmers, who are human beings and human beings
may commit few unknown errors. The bug just sits
there, waiting for the occurrence.
• Singapore was the first country in Asia to steer the IT
revolution for the betterment of society. The
government in Singapore took a great effort in making
the IT as the fabric of the daily lives of the society.
Soon the country began to reap the benefits and became
the developed nation in a decade from the introduction,
that was the exact dream which they set out for
themselves.
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• People leave a lot of digital footprint at various
places in their daily life, this information is
conglomerated at few places like Police, Medical
Institutions, Insurances etc., It is almost like the
output of a certain task depends on the person with
the access of the data.
• If a data is wrongly entered at one place then it is
sure to travel into various databases, which will be a
hectic task for the individual to deal with.
• Major sophisticated systems are deployed to
perform sensitive tasks especially in Airline
Industry, Medical etc., there are many incidents
were the patients or the individuals had to suffer for
no mistake of theirs but due to a minor bug in the
software
• The famous examples are Telephone
communications breakdown, Radiation machines in
Hospitals, Airlines positions in the system getting
disappeared.
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