WHAT ARE THE TECHNOLOGIES INVOLVE IN THE DECISION ?

MASS COMMUNICATION

The mass media has a powerful impact on the people. Publication of news and advertisements in the visual form, no doubt leaves a deep imprint on the minds and therefore, has a more lasting effect.
Similarly, the mass media has made the rapid spread of knowledge possible through various search engines such as Google, Yahoo, etc. The mass media is a convenient vehicle where information on entertainment is easily accessible to members of the public too by logging online. Dutifully note that due to mass media, unfounded rumors and allegations spread like wild fire in cyber space such as blogs, e-mails.

INTERNET 

There is no doubt the Internet is a wondrous creation. The entire world is rapidly becoming obsessed with it. Everywhere you look you're bound to see something related to the Internet.
There is little doubt about how useful the Internet can be. Schoolchildren can receive help with homework, investors can keep track of stocks, sports scores and statistics are just a click away for fans. These are but a few of the myriad ways people use the Internet.


GADGETS 

A gadget is a device or appliance having a unique purpose and function. At the time of invention, a gadget is often way ahead of its peers in terms of novelty and uniqueness. This is what makes them, so desirable and 'cool'!
That modern gadgets have changed the world, is a gross understatement. No one wants to go back to the days of no television, no washing machines and certainly, no cell phone. Hi-tech gadgets are proliferating by the dozen, as companies vie with each other to catch the eyes of gadget freaks or just time-pinched consumers.
Yet, rising from the din of MP3 players, DVD film premiers and podcasts is an ever increasing evidence, braced by scientific work, of the ill-health effects of modern gadgets.

HOW CAN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY HELP YOU TO BE PROFITABLE ?

Communication technology help us to be profitable by using internet to promotes our hobby such as when my hobby is cooking and baking cake, i can use communication technology to promote my cake. Online business is an activities or business in the search for profits through the internet connection. Basically the online business is not much different with business that we know this, such as open a business restaurants, shops, selling vegetables, ect. Which distinguishes the online business is doing business in online.

Is it possible? It is possible. In most countries in Europe and United States, this business online has become a profession that is not strange anymore, that can be used as the earnings.Technology increasingly sophisticated, the man demanded for change directly lifestyle and patterns of thought it.  Marketers promoting their products online have followed a fairly standard arc historically, first buying digital ads and building their own Web sites in the early years of the Internet, and more recently amassing followers on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.  Now, companies increasingly are running online ads that focus less on pitching their products than promoting their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts.

Selling online has a number of advantages over selling by conventional methods, including:

• Making savings in set-up and operational costs. You don't need to rent high street premises, pay shop assistants or answer a lot of pre-sales queries.
• Reducing order processing costs - customer orders can automatically come straight into your orders database from the website.
• Reaching a global audience, thereby increasing sales opportunities.
• Competing with larger businesses by being able to open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• Being able to receive payment more quickly from online transactions.
• Attracting customers who would not normally have investigated your type of high street outlet.
• Improving your offerings using the data gathered by tracking customer purchases.
• Using your online shop as a catalogue for existing customers.

Many businesses can run pilot e-commerce sites without significant investment. However, creating a fully automated online shop tailored to meet your precise requirements could be expensive.

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY ?

Hobbies have always been a secondary activity, a spare-time recreational pursuit. They were practiced for interest and enjoyment, rather than financial reward. Activities like collecting, creative and artistic pursuits, making things and sports lead to acquiring skill, knowledge, and experience. Personal fulfilment was the aim. A hobby horse was a child's plaything, a wooden horse mounted on rockers and the child straddled it and pretended to be riding it.

People collected things, stamps, shells, tickets andso many things. Most people would confess to hoarding what may seem trivial today. At that time, a pebble, a feather, a half broken shell, a colourful piece of broken glass was considered precious and stored away from the sight of judgemental adults. Today children’s hobbies, collections are commercially dictated or supervised seriously by parents who set a value to the collection and how it would impact on their child’s CV years down the line.

An interest in nature was not widely perceived as a proper hobby. People who indulged in bird watching or tiger spotting have now become professional conservationists. Gardening has taken different connotations. Although a garden typically is located on the land surrounding a house or apartment, it may also be located on a roof, in an atrium, on a balcony, in a window box, or on a patio. Gardeners are growing plants, creating little nurseries and plants and flowers or advising others on it. Ikebana and Bonsai are associated interests that have also commercial potential..

A hobby nowadays can also be turned into a living. Amateur astronomers often are the first to discover a celestial body or event. A techie may take to dancing as a stress buster while a professional chef might enjoy playing and helping to debug computer games. These people are generally called ‘geeks’.

I like to cook. Cooking is regarded by many women as a stereotypical duty and not a hobby. But it can be one of the cool hobbies for women and you can easily feel the difference between cooking as a duty and as a hobby. It can be real fun to try out some new recipes relying solely on your culinary experience. Trying some unusual ingredients and combination which can be a totally different adventurous experience than everyday cooking. If you want to further enhance your culinary skills, then attending cooking classes can be a great idea.

Whether cooking is a hobby is somewhat debateable. Cooking is an act of preparing food for eating. Cooking has that inexplicable quality that adds to the taste, flavour and the effect of the dish served, a quality called love. The act of cooking is not just a chore; it is performed with feeling and emotion linked to the notion called family. Women have always been the cooks at home while men have been the professional ones.

Does cooking, declared by most women as their hobby, loose this wonderful quality when it becomes a commercial enterprise? Serving food gives instant results, good or bad and the success of the dishes served leads to the success of their career. 

For many women, cooking and catering in small quantities from their home has turned into a lucrative activity that satisfies their desire to cook well and earns them a little pin money.

EXAMPLES OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

USES OF WIRELESS

Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few metres for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometres for deep-space radio communications. It encompasses various types of fixed, mobile, and portable two-way radios, cellular telephones, personal digital assistants(PDAs), and wireless networking. Other examples of wireless technology include GPS units, Garage door openers or garage doors, wireless computer mice, keyboards and Headset (audio), headphones, radio receivers, satellite television, broadcast television and cordless telephones.

USES OF CORDLESS

The term "wireless" should not be confused with the term "cordless", which is generally used to refer to powered electrical or electronic devices that are able to operate from a portable power source (e.g. a battery pack) without any cable or cord to limit the mobility of the cordless device through a connection to the mains power supply.

Some cordless devices, such as cordless telephones, are also wireless in the sense that information is transferred from the cordless telephone to the telephone's base unit via some type of wireless communications link. This has caused some disparity in the usage of the term "cordless", for example in Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications.

USES OF PHOTOPHONE

The world's first wireless telephone conversation occurred in 1880, when Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter invented and patented the photophone, a telephone that conducted audio conversations wirelessly over modulated light beams (which are narrow projections of electromagnetic waves). In that distant era when utilities did not yet exist to provide electricity, and lasers had not even been conceived of inscience fiction, there were no practical applications for their invention, which was highly limited by the availability of both sunlight and good weather. Similar to free space optical communication, the photophone also required a clear line of sight between its transmitter and its receiver. It would be several decades before the photophone's principles found their first practical applications in military communications and later in fiber-optic communications.

USES OF RADIO

The term "wireless" came into public use to refer to a radio receiver or transceiver (a dual purpose receiver and transmitter device), establishing its usage in the field of wireless telegraphy early on; now the term is used to describe modern wireless connections such as in cellular networks and wireless broadband Internet. It is also used in a general sense to refer to any type of operation that is implemented without the use of wires, such as "wireless remote control" or "wireless energy transfer", regardless of the specific technology.

USES OF MOBILE TELEPHONE

One of the best-known examples of wireless technology is the mobile phone, also known as a cellular phone, with more than 4.6 billion mobile cellular subscriptions worldwide as of the end of 2010. These wireless phones use radio waves to enable their users to make phone calls from many locations worldwide. They can be used within range of the mobile telephone site used to house the equipment required to transmit and receive the radio signals from these instruments.

WHAT IS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

Communications technology refers to means of delivering information between one individual or group and another group or individual insofar as such communications require a delivery mechanism with some technological foundation. Communications Contexts A face-to-face conversation or a hand-delivered note can occur with little or no technology involved in the exchange, whereas many other communication situations require a technologically based delivery. Different locations for the most part, communication technology facilitates communication between persons whose physical location is other than at the same location. Television has gone through massive changes since the 1980s with aggressive development in communication technology namely cable, satellite computer and other combined communication technologies that transformed television’s function in many societies today. Communication technology as commodity does not exist in a vacuum, but rather is carefully structured, implemented, invented and re-invented so that the technology can sustain and maintain itself in the marketplace. The revolution in technology gave birth to two most essential terms that are widely used to describe the development and trends in communication technology. The two terms are convergence and divergence. The term convergence refers to the blurring of boundaries between different telecommunication media. Telephone, radio, television, computer are combined to produce text, pictures, video and sound in a single form. In this sense, at least two types of different media are used to deliver television content (feature) to the audience. Divergence on the other hand, involves the multiplying of form or communication medium in delivery television signals using various devices such as terrestrial, cable, satellite and computer system.

EXAMPLES OF TECHNOLOGY

The technology industry provides the basis for chip production, information and communication systems, and computer systems. These companies serve as the developers and manufacturers of the products which drive the increasing efficiency and production of cell phones, computers, televisions, as well as other communication and information systems. It is a large industry with a vast growth potential, but it is also subject to sometimes volatile cycles, such as in the semiconductor industry. As chips continue to get smaller and globalization increases, demand for faster, more efficient technology will help drive the tech industry.

Gadgets 

Gadgets are more unusual and more clever than normal technological objects and that makes them gain popularity. These wonderful gizmos ease our daily routine and keep us in contact with the innovative movement, making sure we don’t get stuck in the past. But of course, in the world of gadgets there are also some devices that take it a little bit far, making us gaze at them with hope that we will get our hands on them sooner.

Household Furnishings

vacuum

 iron

washing machine

Technology in Medical Field

nuclear medicinal

uses of Bluetooth technology in stereoscopic 

robot-assisted surgery

WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY ?

Throughout the twentieth century the uses of the term have increased to the point where it now encompasses a number of “classes” of technology:

1. Technology as Objects:

Tools, machines, instruments, weapons, appliances - the physical devices of technical performance

2. Technology as Knowledge:

 

The know-how behind technological innovation

3. Technology as Activities: 

What people do - their skills, methods, procedures, routines

4. Technology as a Process: 

Begins with a need and ends with a solution

5. Technology as a Sociotechnical System:

The manufacture and use of objects involving people and other objects in combination

Technology has a number of distinct characteristics:

1. It is Related to Science?

Although there is certainly a relationship between science and technology, there is, except in certain high technology industries, very little technology that could be classified as applied science. Technology is marked by different purposes, different processes a different relationship to established knowledge and a particular relationship to specific contexts of activity. Change in the material environment is the explicit purpose of technology, and not, as is the case with science, the understanding of nature; accordingly its solutions are not right or wrong, verifiable or falsifiable, but more or less effective from different points of view.

2. It Involves Design

At the centre of technology lies design. That “design is the very core of engineering” is affirmed by the requirement that all degree engineering courses should embody it. Thedesign process in technology is a sequential process which begins with the perception of a need, continues with the formulation of a specification, the generation of ideas and a final solution, and ends with an evaluation of the solution.

3. It Involves Making

The motivating factor behind all technological activity is the desire to fulfil a need. For this reason all designs should be made or realised - whether that be through prototype, batch- or mass- production or some form of three-dimensional or computer model - if the need is to be truly fulfilled, the design is to be legitimately evaluated, and the design activity is to have been purposeful and worthwhile.

4. It is Multi-Dimensional

Not only may design and production involve co-operation between different specialisms (between, for example, designer, production engineer and materials scientist), but may involve “technologists” in performing a multitude of functions, such as working with others, operating within budgets, persuading decision makers, communicating to clients and working to deadlines.

5. It Is Concerned With Values

Technology is informed by values at every point. Value decisions may be called for not only in relation to the specific design criteria (i.e. aesthetic, ergonomic and economic judgements, suitability for purpose and ease of manufacture) but also in relation to the rightness or wrongness of a particular solution in ethical terms.

6. It is Socially Shaped/Shaping

Technological enterprises are determined not by advances in knowledge nor simply by the identification of needs, but by social interests. Of the potential new technologies available at any one time only a few are developed and become widely implemented. In this way technology is shaped by society, by consumer choice. yet it could also be argued that technology shapes society - the technology of the motor car, for example, has shaped our environment and our whole way of life.