Innovation: Computer

Enhancement: What does this technology do? This innovation allows people to work more efficiently, access large amounts of information, socialize, shop, listen to music, and access people from all over the world.	Obsolete: This innovation replaced many former technologies, as well as the personal contact that people had with one another.  Additionally, this technology replaced record players, radios, and 8 track tape players.
Retrieve/Rekindle: This innovation brings back the connection to the radio, record players, and 8 track tape players.	Reverse: Unknown. This innovation has become a part of our everyday lives and the continual upgrades to make it smaller and faster will likely occur in the future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.     What does this technology do? This innovation has replaced jobs by offering efficiencies to users. Additionally, this technology has replaced record players, radios, and other music sources by digitally creating transportable and accessible forms of music.

2.     What does this technology replace? This innovation replaces record players, tape recorders, radios, and tape players.

3.     What does this technology bring to mind from the past? This technology brings back music from the past that has been heard on radios, record players, and tape players.

4.     What might replace this technology in the future, or what might it cause to occur? It is unlikely this technology will be replaced anytime soon because of the role it plays in our everyday lives. It is likely this technology will continually become smaller and faster.

Emerging Technologies and Future Technologies

Cloud computing's Top Issues for Higher education:

http://www.universitybusiness.com/article/cloud-computings-top-issues-higher-education

Cloud computing has been touted as an up and coming innovation that offers companies a cost effective way to store large amounts of data at an off-site storage system, which is maintained by a third party company.  For academic institutions, this innovation has the potential to change the way education is delivered and accessed by students.  More specifically, Cloud Computing offers learners 24 hour access to course software from any rural or remote location. Additionally, this technological service has the capacity to cut costs on IT overhead, staffing, and software upgrades for colleges that choose purchase this service.  According to Britto (2012) cloud service providers perform system maintenance and offer software upgrades, which reduce annual maintenance costs for any organization.

Unfortunately, this technology has not been adopted as fast as first predicted, due to the lack of security, reliability, and unforeseen server maintenance and power outage issues. According to Dialogic (2010), the main challenges of cloud computing are storing and securing data. Consequently, colleges and universities are obligated to protect student data and information by the federal FERPA law. Therefore, until colleges and universities are assured that student data and information is secure and remains private, full adoption of this technology is unlikely.

References:

Britto, M. (January, 2012). Cloud computing in higher education. Retrieved at: http://www.librarystudentjournal.org/index.php/lsj/article/view/289/321

Introduction to Cloud Computing. (2010). Retrieved at: http://www.dialogic.com/solutions/cloud-communications/build/~/media/products/docs/whitepapers/12023-cloud-computing-wp.pdf