Shrinking the World: Improvements in the Speed of Information Transmission, c. 1820-1870

2004 ◽  
pp. 231-260
Author(s):  
Yrjö Kaukiainen
Keyword(s):  
Information Transmission ◽  
Growth Process ◽  
New Technology ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Post Office ◽  
Ocean Shipping ◽  
The World

This chapter discusses the important developments in shipping communication that took place decades before the establishment of the electric telegraph. It emphasises that the improvement of communications was a major factor in the growth process of ocean shipping productivity and draws materials from Lloyd’s List; the British Post Office; the East India Company; and Peter Malm’s shipping correspondence in order to provide testimonies and transmission speeds to show the development of communication. The chapter also considers the role of the steamship in the transformation of overseas communication from the end of the 1830s whilst looking at the emergence of new technology in the expanding shipping market.

Information Systems Usage in Business and Management

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-23
Author(s):  
Mihane Berisha-Namani
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Management Functions ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
Role Of Information

Information systems in the world of business and management exist to serve varied needs. This article examines the role of information systems technology in business activities and management functions and discusses how organisations can best use information systems. This study provides managers and researchers with a framework for effective use of information systems for business and management purposes and offers an alternative approach to investigate the impact of new technology. The author concludes that a need exists for further research in this field to increase understanding of information systems usage in business and management. The study recommends that more attention be paid to information systems technology, as it is key to better management and succeeding in business.

scholarly journals A study on customers’ attitudes on cell phones in tiruchirappalli city

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 264-279
Author(s):  
SANKARANARAYANAN G
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Human Life ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Cellular Phones ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
The World

Cellular phones are taking a very important role in our day to day life. Communication is an essential aspect in human life and the role of cell phones has become a very important part in these days.In recent years, the number of mobile phones in the world had been increased at an exponential rate.The reasons for this are numerous, however lower prices and the availability of new technology mean that even the younger ones now own and regularly use mobile phones. Moreover, it has the capability to keeps in touch with family and friends from faraway places; these days due to the development of advanced technologies cell phones are not accomplished only for receiving and talking phone calls, but can also stores important data, takings cameras, stores songs etc.

HENRY MARTYN AND ENGLAND’S CHRISTIAN EMPIRE: REREADING JANE EYRE THROUGH MISSIONARY BIOGRAPHY

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ellis Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Spiritual Quest ◽  
Military Violence ◽  
British East India Company ◽  
The World ◽  
Mission Field

IN 1814 THE YOUNG Thomas Babington Macaulay tried his hand at the couplet to memorialize one of his Evangelical family’s heroes. Henry Martyn, chaplain to the British East India Company, had died in 1812 on his way home from duties in the east. With an adolescent’s enthusiasm for battle Macaulay engaged the tropes of spiritual quest and violent conquest that accompanied the evangelical spirit. To Martyn’s efforts he attributed, “Eternal trophies! Not with carnage red, / Not stained with tears by hapless captives shed, / But trophies of the Cross!” (281). Military violence gives way to conquest in a higher sphere, the world of the mission field. Nearly a half century later George Eliot evoked Martyn’s spiritual heroism at the outset of her career as a fiction writer. In Scenes of Clerical Life, Janet Dempster finds the inspiration to reform her life by reading the Memoir of Henry Martyn. Martyn’s example nerves her to engage in self-sacrifice and is the catalyst for her return to the scene of domestic violence; in an act of self-conquest Janet assumes the role of model wife and forgiving Christian.

scholarly journals Is There Any Role of Technological Inputs? A District-wise Analysis of Output Differential in Crop Sector

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (4II) ◽  
pp. 925-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Jalil Khan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Growth Process ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

The idea of inclusive growth has emerged over time that highlighted systematically excluded segments of society from enjoying the benefits of growth on the basis of religion, ethnicity or location. In Pakistan, districts-wise allocation and usage of technological inputs is the outcome of growth and the important contributing elements as well to enhance specifically crop sector output under the advancement in growth prospective. It is reported that crop sector output contributes around 40 percent of the total agricultural GDP,1 where 2/3rd belongs to Punjab.2 The introduction of advance technological inputs provides an opportunity to enhance production potentials of crop sector in different provinces and their respective districts because Pakistan is also facing the problem of low agricultural productivity in comparison to many developed and developing countries of the world.3 Secondly, the expansion of opportunities to enhance economic freedom in long run has been considered an important issue that needs to be addressed in inclusive growth process. Hence, understanding the interrelationship among different farm related inputs effecting crop sector would help to measure (i) the impact of increased total traditional and technological inputs; (ii) contributive aspects of both types of technological inputs; machine and bio-chemical; and (iii) districtwise differential especially considering their resource endowments and availability.

scholarly journals Does Technology Change Families? A Tri -Angulation Discussion on the Relation of Family & Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 260
Author(s):  
Forough Shojanoori ◽  
Samaneh Sadat Sadidpour
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Technology Change ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Violent Content ◽  
Multiple Focus ◽  
The World

Families have moved, or have been moved, from the streets into their homes or more specifically, into their bedrooms. Digital technology – computer games, mobiles & the internet and email are referred to as new technology when they are discussed in relation to Health & structure of families and Many parents, clinicians, researchers, and policy makers are concerned that electronic tools, especially those featuring violent content, may be harmful to individuals especially youths. This article is a documentary study, combination of multiple focus is chosen. In this article, Internet, Mobile and computer games. This article looks into the role of the technology on families. Specifically, it examines how the mediated space that this technology creates matters. Technological change often creates ungrounded fears but also overinflated hopes. In order to minimize risks and to seize chances, systematic, empirical, and ideally experimental research is crucial in all over the world. Major changes in family structure and environments might potentially severely disrupt family functioning, thus diminishing a family’s ability to cope with stress, so by the advent of a technology.

Information Systems Usage in Business and Management

2013 ◽  
pp. 48-59
Author(s):  
Mihane Berisha-Namani
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Management Functions ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
Role Of Information

Information systems in the world of business and management exist to serve varied needs. This article examines the role of information systems technology in business activities and management functions and discusses how organisations can best use information systems. This study provides managers and researchers with a framework for effective use of information systems for business and management purposes and offers an alternative approach to investigate the impact of new technology. The author concludes that a need exists for further research in this field to increase understanding of information systems usage in business and management. The study recommends that more attention be paid to information systems technology, as it is key to better management and succeeding in business.

scholarly journals Cultivation theory and hegemony

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-139
Author(s):  
Ömer Özer
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Cultivation Theory ◽  
Study Research ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Hegemony can be roughly defined as the overall field of practical strategies exerted by a dominant power in gaining the consent of the people under its rule (Eagleton, 1996: 167). The authority exercised on subordinated classes depends on consent, not force. Predominant classes operate hegemony through ideology; and media is one of the fields that hegemony is achieved. Cultivation theory expresses that television has a role on the social reality conceptualization and the world perception of people. For instance, heavy viewers consider that police is essential for this world. This suggests that hegemony is achieved. In this study, research concerning the cultivation role of television on the students of Faculty of Science at Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey was carried out and the cultivation role has come out as a result of the analyses. This result indicates that hegemony is achieved on the related faculty students. In the Conclusion, I will discuss whether television is an old or new technology.

scholarly journals A new life on the small screen and around it: The beginnings of television in socialist Yugoslavia (1955–1970)

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
Ildiko Erdei
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Socialist Society ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entertainment Television ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Small Screen

Ever since television became institutionalized in socialist Yugoslavia in the late 1950’s, it was closely associated with the idea of a „new life“ in socialist society. As a new technology, as a modern object in the socialist household, and as a medium which enabled the transmission of desirable content for creating socialist citizens and shaping models of socialist „culturality“ and entertainment, television represents a prime terrain for studying the transformations of culture and society in the latter half of the 20th century in Yugoslavia, as well as in the rest of Europe and the world. The paper is mostly based a number of key sources, memoirs, which speak of the history of television in Yugoslavia from the point of view of creators and a wider circle of experts who were involved in it. In this paper I will attempt to shed some light on the dynamics of the process of introducing television into Yugoslavian society, the perplexities, confusions and tensions which this new technology – simultaneously the product and the mediator of modernity – brought with it. Special attention is given to the relationship between television as technology and television as a medium of mass communication, which permanently marked the beginnings of television in Yugoslavia with the tension between „tech“ and „programming“, as well as to the role of television in everyday life.

scholarly journals The role of science and technology in sustainable development: A case study in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pham Thi Thuy
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Growth Process ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The World

Science and technology not only improve people's knowledge by assisting them in perceiving and comprehending the world's nature and laws, but also by assisting them in transforming knowledge into technical means, or ways to improve the world, thus effectively serving each country's socio-economic development. Ho Chi Minh City has used its potentials and advantages to seize chances and drive back challenges as part of the international integration process. significant economic, scientific, and technological centers of the country. However, several fundamental issues arise in the growth process in Ho Chi Minh City, such as science and technology failing to match the criteria of the city's sustainable development; The level of science and technology is still low, the competitiveness is low, and production is still based on manual labor; the science and technology staff is still low, and the team of leading experts in priority science and technology fields, such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, microchip technology, and automation, is severely lacking; planning for the development of high-quality human resources has not been given due attention, and implementation has been fragmented; Many issues and deficiencies in policies on training, developing and employing scientific workers in general, and young scientists in particular, remain unresolved.

scholarly journals Preparing humanity for change and artificial intelligence

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Laukkonen ◽  
Hannah Biddell ◽  
Regan Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Learning To Learn ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Labor ◽  
Meta Learning ◽  
Rapid Pace

The world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In the span of only a few short years, we have witnessed technological progress, population growth, and globalization to a degree not seen in the lifetimes of our ancestors. Machines are also becoming smarter and more capable. As automation increases in domains where human labor and decision-making were once necessary, it will become increasingly difficult for individuals to create value and meaning through work. And, if one does find a niche, further changes may soon take place—new technology will acquire new skills, and people will continuously need to adapt. As a consequence of this growing dynamism, it is no longer sufficient to adapt to any one environment; humans and society must learn to adapt to change itself—they must increasingly learn to learn. In this paper, we begin with a brief account of how brains and minds work based on a theory broadly known as predictive processing (Friston, 2003; Clark, 2013). According to this view, humans come to understand and perceive the world by making predictions, a process that is therefore at the heart of understanding how humans deal with unpredictable circumstances. We then discuss research on how humans and machines respond in situations characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), and the role of agency in social and moral situations. We conclude by arguing that learning-to-learn and meta- learning strategies are key capacities that currently distinguish humans from machines. For society to be generally adaptable to change, we propose that social structures and education systems will need to nurture skills that foster general and transferable learning capacities (rather than, or in addition to, specific skills). For humans to flourish in the future, governments are also encouraged to incentivize citizens who possess skills to become teachers and mentors. Society can be made robust when experts are inclined to teach those who are willing and able to learn.

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