1. Read the text.
What Is Information Technology Today?
A 1958 article in Harvard Business Review referred to information technology as consisting of three basic parts: computational data processing, decision support, and business software. This time period marked the beginning of IT as an officially defined area of business; in fact, this article probably coined the term.
Over the ensuring decades, many corporations created so-called "IT departments" to manage the computer technologies related to their business. Today, IT departments have responsibility in areas like: computer technical support; business computer network and database administration; business software deployment; information security.
Especially during the dot-com boom of the 1990s, Information Technology also became associated with aspects of computing beyond those owned by IT departments. This broader definition of IT includes areas like: software development; computer systems architecture; project management.
Job posting sites commonly use IT as a category in their databases. The category includes a wide range of jobs across architecture, engineering and administration functions. People with jobs in these areas typically have college degrees in computer science and/or information systems. A career in Information Technology can involve working in or leading IT departments, product development teams, or research groups.
Since adequate IT support has become absolutely indispensable in managing business processes, there is a huge variety of employment opportunities in almost every industry branch, starting from the IT branch itself (e.g. software companies, business consultancies, computer manufacturer) to processing/manufacturing industry branches, credit institutions and insurance companies to service providers and management consultancy firms.
2. Make up 5 special questions on the text “What Is Information Technology Today?” starting them with:
1. Why…?
2. Where…?
3. When…?
4. What …?
5. Who …?
3. Put the words in the right order to make sentences. Write them down.
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2. Information, has, roots, diverse, technology.
3. The, economist, came, along game, with, theory.
4. believe, We, that, information, will, technology, rapidly, spread.
5. Information, allows, fewer, technology, to, do, people, more, work.
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7. I, new, installed, a program, my, on, computer.
8. Communicating, people, with, email, by, very, is, easy.
9. I, have, often, connecting, problems, the, to, internet.
10. There, various, are, ways, for, to, business, communicate, one, with, another.
4. Make up the outline of the text.
What the future will need to be foreseen. Science fiction writers differently describe the future. But in most cases they are similar in one: in the company of people there will be robots which will have an artificial intelligence, and people will start to move on other planets. It is possible, so it and will be. After all once people thought that the earth flat but when began to plow open spaces of the ocean and to open continents, understood that affairs is absolutely in a different way.
Over time people also will start to open new planets as once opened new continents. The person can't sit in place, it is directed in the future, before it still a set of secrets which to it should be opened.
Someone is afraid of the future as uncertainty always frightens. That nobody waits for the person through some hundreds years knows. A lot of things depends on the person, he creates history and builds the future. Probably, the most important consists in that people took care of the future for new generation that they shouldn't be suffered from diseases, shortage of food. We should care of the future, about in what condition mother Earth will get to our descendants.