Week 5

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is an important factor in the modern context, when information is gold and effective communication is the “shovel” to dig the gold. The issue of ICT is getting more and more attention along with the globalization trend all over the world, where the world becomes flat, the national boundary is blurred.
"ICT is the catalyst that facilitates the knowledge revolution"
-Gurinder Shahi-

Some issues refer to ICT that we should take into consideration is mass media, the Internet, wireless, and interactive telecommunication. ICT has a short history with only about one century development, but in that short period of time, ICT has changed the world overall, from the means to communicate, entertain to educate. However, at that point, our Prof Gurinder Shahi claims that ICT has not reached its utmost capacity: in the first revolution of human in agriculture, we raised the productivity by 25 times by replacing stone appliances with metal ones; the second revolution in 17th century, we also raise the productivity by 25 times thanks to industrialization; but the ICT revolution only raises the productivity by 5 times. Why does such a breakthrough make such inconsiderable effect? I myself think it is the issue of measure, because the industrialization has improved the productivity to nearly reach its maximum potential so that the advancement is not so apparent. However, Prof refers to previous lession