what is the diference between technological obsolenscence and functional obsolescence?
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Technical or functional obsolescence\nVideotapes making way for DVD's\nEnlarge\nVideotapes making way for DVD's\n\n    * When a new, more functional product or technology supersedes the old (example: telegraph -> telephone)\n    * The product becomes useless due to changes in other products. For example, buggy whips became obsolete when people started traveling in cars instead of buggies.\n    * Spare parts are made expensive in order to make purchasing a new item a more attractive option.\n    * Use of poor quality materials to shorten the product lifetime.\n    * When component parts are no longer available to enable the manufacture of an item. Management of this type of obsolescence is required if long term product availability is important. See Obsolescence Management.\n\n\nSorry i just coped an pasted this from wikipedia
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There is no difference... it's the perception.\nThey're exactly the same models made by Dell, HP, IBM, Compaq, etc.  Some come packaged with software that is for business applications (MS-Office, etc.), and have more-lucrative warranties for business people, but they are all made to the same specifications.
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Actually a man named Ray Kurzweil (something of a big name in these circles) has been writing about this very topic for the past twenty years. Kurzweil is a researcher, inventor, and developer of computer electronics as well as the recipient of a couple presidential awards. Furthermore he is a published author of numerous books and articles regarding technology and human interactions with technology. \n\nOne of the things that he points out is that computers are becoming more and more sophisticated and capable of carrying out more and more computations at faster and faster rates with the passing of each year. That’s not to say that your machine is doing this, but that we’re creating computers that are faster and able to hold more information constantly. As a result we’re rapidly approaching a time when computers are going to be as capable of processing information as the human brain. According to some of his predictions we should be first seeing these advanced machines within the next ten to fifteen years. And with market demands in the US being what they are, the price on these machines will have a tendency to steadily decrease as the technology for making these computers becomes cheaper and more readily available. As a result we as a public may end up owning one of these smarter computers within the next twenty years. \n\nThere are two additional points that he makes though: It will also be likely that research into increasing computer speeds as well as processing, memory storage and retrieval probably wont stop at the point of having a computer that’s as ‘intelligent’ as the human mind. Also, with the aforementioned decline in prices in creating these smarter computers and technology making the production of these machines easier, we may find these computers cropping up in smaller and smaller packages and in more and more things. As a result, we could possibly find ourselves surrounded with this technology quite easily. \n\nI’m not trying to paint a Matrix looking future, but it is possible that we may find ourselves outnumbered by our machines, so we had better have a good idea of what we’re doing when we create them.
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You should read Ray Kurzeils "The Singularity is Near"  and understand the law of accelerating returns. \n\nIn 50 years time we may be life, Jim, but not as we know it...
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OEM software is the stuff that came with the computer... Original Equipment Manufacturers. Programs are usually modified slightly to show the brand name of the computer or something like that, but functionally they are exactly the same.
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Due to the introduction of technology, you need less manpower and more machine power. This introduction of technology will lead to unemployment and is thus called as technological unemployment.
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Yes\n\nanalogue is the old wave technology, digital is the new bit technology.\n\nNetwork Topologies are how networks are set up. It is their construction or makeup.
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Any computer that is out of date would be considered this.\n\n\nThis will exist every year as new technology comes along and makes what we now have obsolete or what some consider a dark age computer.\n\nA dark age computer might still serve your needs.
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No they are not the same. Information technology is more with they systems and the science part deals with more of the program.
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I'm curious.... If it's due tomorrow, how long have you had to research it?  In any case, you are in luck!  This is the technological age and you can GOOGLE IT!\n\nBest Wishes,\n\nSue
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computers ONLY increase productivity if people know how to use them properly, otherwise they actual decrease productivity for about 6 months til the user is up to speed
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Technology that is very, very, very small. Working things that are so small you can't see them with your plain eye.
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Well that is what "they" say. I think it is a little more complex than that. Certainly the newer pocket calculater has a faster processer and probably more available memory but the two devices have different functional needs. It would be like asking which is smarter a microwave oven or a cel phone. Even today components used in spacecraft are not cutting edge devices. This is for several reasons, some are cost and reliability, and some are the environmental differences between exposure to space and radiation and simply operating in your home.
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from a technological stand point better, sadly worse from an enviromental one
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1-Portables\n2-Desktops\n\n\n\n1---they will get smaller\nthey keyboard will become obsolete and everything will be voice command\nthey will be small enough to wear as wristwatches\n internet will become even more globalized as wi-fi towers will be everywhere you go so internet will always be available\nthe screen will also become obsolete and will be replaced by a hologram that displays al information needed\nalso to prevent theft all of the wrist-computers will have fingerprint scanners and voice recognition software as computers will get smaller so will the storage devices cd's will no longer exist everything will be repaced by memory cards SD by default maybe Xd or memory stick\nthe whole world will be interconneced not only will computers be smaller and more affordable but they will offer other services such as telephone and mp3 player, nav. system, gps, and they will carry all needed information.\n\n2---the most likely evolution for the desktop will be home office the desktop will also get smaller the screen will grow bigger doubling as a touch screen keyboard replaced by a single palm scanner and a microphone fo voice commands the cpu will get laptop-thin but it will be able to hook up to any and all smart appliances hooked up to a network within ones house so they will 'talk' to each other you could be talking to your computer and tell it to turn the stove on or to microwave you some steak umms\nbesides doing all that computers will also carry all iportant files documents and records heavily encrypted and secured so that nothing can get in or out without you knowing and above all virtualization of real world items will be possible as well as making a virtual object real with this possibilty will come the teleporter and telepods transporting people anywhere as fast as internet speeds can carry\nwith all the advances security systems will now be upgraded to near-invincibility and will be pricey and with all the world united by electronics one Y2K catastrophy could mean the end of the world or a terminator rise of the machines like incident
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i'm torn...i would love to see how technology has impacted living hundred of years from now....but then again i would love to go back and buy as much microsoff stock as possible or profit from knowing how events turn out so i could live very well...i'd like to do both please
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this is a two part problem - at least.\nWhen equipment (or software)no longer meets a companies need it has to be upgraded or replaced.\nWhen either is no longer supported (called end of life cycle) it is best to be ready to dump the old stuff. The cost and over head of supporting interally (within the company) hardware and software that you do not have resources for runs very high. \n    Someone has to maintain equipment - as a rule it is best to do so under warrenty, unless your company is so large it has a full staff for softwae and hardware. Otherwise outsource it and cut the overhead. \nCarl