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What lies ahead in Australia’s Digital Future: A Snapshot of Australia’s Digital Future to 2050

Dan — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:05:57 +0000

Fiber to the Premises was only introduced to homes in 2009. This was made possible with the help of the government in partnership with internet providers. In 2010, Telstra introduce increases the data allowances on their plans allowing their users to use the internet more. This applies to mobile and internet plans. Australia is only beginning to harness the potential of broadband technology.

With this in mind, IBM conducted a research to determine the progress of digital technology in Australia. On June 14, 2012, a report titled “A Snapshot of Australia’s Digital Future to 2050” was released indicating how information and communications technology would be an important resource. This details the changes that would happened to Australia’s digital technology and how it would affect the economy and different industries.

IBM commissioned Phil Ruthven, who is the Founder and Chairman of IBISWorld. The report is a projection of how numerous industries would be affected by the progress and innovations to information and communications technology. This indicates how this technology can benefit a lot of industries and improve their work. It also hints about how some industries can harness the potential of this digital technology to their advantage. Sadly, part of the report indicates how the technology would cause negative effects on some industries and may lead to some of these industries being obsolete. You can find more details about the report here:

Although there are 15 industries that would not find sustainability in this technology, they would only contribute a minimal about of revenue to the economy. The boom that other industries would experience would cover the losses. The report boasts of $1 trillion revenue for Australia by 2050 with the help of this utility. Currently, the resource is generating $131 billion as revenue. Information and communication technology would also benefit a lot of industries like mining, education, and health care. With how high speed internet is being used today, we can really see how this can produce promising developments in the future. The report provided ways on how industries can profit by incorporating the use of this utility as part of their business. Big and small businesses are setting up shop in the virtual market. Harnessing the potential of this promising technology now would help your business gain stability.

Australia would face a lot of great development with the help of this utility as this would improve the potential of a lot of industry. The quality of education would improve. Australia would be able to enhance Tourism, making it a really profitable industry. Together with this, the possibility of Health Tourism, as Health would also benefit from the use of this technology. Australia would be able to provide quality services that are essential Business Process Outsourcing.

The report created a study on different industries and determined how they can compete with the help from information and communications technology. This indicates how the industry can benefit from the use of this resource and how it can affect growth and profit. This also provides ideas on how an industry can adapt and use this technology to their advantage. About 10% from the total number of industries would not be able to operate without this technology, and the industries included in this percentage generate 25% of the country’s revenues. This is the reason why different industries are urged to use this enhanced technology.

Determining the sustainability of the industry was carefully determine with the help of a criterion and ranking that is created for the study with the help of information that is available in IBISWorld’s Industrial Database. This carefully determined as to whether an industry would experience substantial benefits in the use of the technology and the gravity of its effect. This also determines which industries would be able to evolve with the help of the technology that is introduced. It is the same criterion that determined as to which industry may suffer due to the progress that is brought about by the development of other industries and the economy as caused by this technology.

The benefits would also produce a substantial benefit to consumers. As part of the development of information and communications technology, consumers who use the technology would get more out of the service. This would improve the technology we use at home like the internet or the telephone. With better technology, the possibility of working at home is realized. This would allow people to work full-time at home while doing business with different industries even those overseas. This also opens opportunities for small businesses as the technology provides them a level playing field with big companies. Also, with the development of this technology there would be lesser need for resources or the possibility of improving the prices of resources making it easier to create a profitable business.

The report is definitely an eye-opener to a lot of industries. The year 2050 can be very vague. It is impossible to determine how your business would be after 40 to 35 years. Having this report truly helps allowing business to make well-formed plans that would change their business. The use of enhanced information and communication technology really shows great promise. You can even see how broadband technology affects businesses today. The report claims that the technology would evolve fast and does not take much time to generate profit. The report also helps in showing people which industries would benefit from the technology and would exhibit great development. This would be great information for potential investors. Also, with the reports about possible revenues, it really poses more possibilities for progress to Australia’s economy. This would also help in attracting international investors.

IBM hopes to show the potential in information and communications technology and how this can affect Australia and its 509 industries. The report shows a lot of significant benefits and very minimal consequential effects. The report is favors by a lot of economist calling year 2050 “The Trillion Dollar Digital Age”. There are industries that did not fare well on some of economists’ projection and the report provides a possible solution. Some industries can enjoy a transformative benefit with the help of this technology. The report really helps in showcase the possibilities that lie in the Australia’s Digital Future.

For further information and complete findings download the report:www.ibm.com/ibm/au/digitalfuture

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Google Gets an Upgrade

Dan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:05:24 +0000

According to Google’s Grzegorz Czajkowski, many of the things people are involved in can be represented in the form of graph, including professional activities and personal relationships. The company was the first to use advanced graph analysis methods like PageRank to get more from the Web.

Using graphs in a dynamic environment like the society brings a new angle to computational power and scalability. Google applies the Bulk Synchronous Parallel Model in its scalable graph analysis by using a framework known as Pregel. Pregel simplifies the calculation of PageRank and scales clusters autonomously without requiring programmers to intervene manually. As a result, the software engineers have more time to concentrate on the algorithm itself.

The Basics of PageRank

PageRank uses the random suffer model that assumes that Web surfers use a linear method when following links until their interests stop or they stop browsing. All the clicks away from the source documents reduce the PageRank. Of course, the actual process is more complex, with the typical value of PageRank dampening being 0.15.

The entire Web can be treated like a graph, where all the pages and index-able files are regarded as ‘vertices’ and the links as ‘edges.’
The vertices are usually initialised with starting values that, interestingly, make no major influence on the end-result. Pregel runs
through a series of super-steps after initialisation by updating values and sending messages to other vertices.

Related Frameworks and Methodologies

According to Bill Slawski of SEO by the Sea, there’s more behind Pregel and Google, which uses other techniques like FlumeJava and Dremel. The company uses Pregel because it is ‘expressive’ and easy to program.
Software engineers have designed their own frameworks and toolkits, especially when dealing with multi-step graph operations.

Characteristics and Benefits of Dremel

Nested data

Interactive speed

Trillion-record, multi-terabyte datasets

Columnar processing and storage

Aggregation tree architecture

Spam analysis

Analysing crawled Web documents

In situ data access

Crash reporting for Google Products

OCR results from Google Books

Tracking the install of Android Market apps

Resource monitoring for work run in Google’s data centres

Debugging map tiles on Google Maps

FlumeJava

Google users started using FlumeJava in May 2009. It is simpler than MapReduce and can control executor and optimizer if necessary. Hundreds of people use pipelines with processing capacities ranging from gigabytes to petabytes every month.
Google employs interchangeable tools and systems that multiple groups can use.

References:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2261
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1201/1201.2261.pdf
http://arxiv.org/a/petrovic_d_1

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Future of education

Dan — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:47:03 +0000

Read any science-fiction book from decades ago and you will likely be surprised by the ways that fantasy has met reality. However, not even the most creative mind got it right when it came to the advancements in education. “In fact nobody anticipated the end of the space exploration era and the start of the information revolution”. There are many ways that education has been impacted by technology. While it is easier now to see what the future of education looks like, there are still things even modern experts have not anticipated.

Access to Everyone

It is widely understood that it is now possible for anybody to find any information they are seeking. With the advent of the Internet, knowledge is free and accessible to all. This is truly one of the most exciting aspects about the future of education. Today, it can be difficult to discern what is authoritative and what is smoke-blowing; they are both intertwined in an open information portal. Hopefully, the future will see an increase in usable and trustworthy information, making educational resources more useful. If nothing else, modern education institutions are moving more toward platforms that allow information to be sorted and rated for their usefulness and value. Specific search engines are already being implemented in educational settings that filter Internet content in a more intelligent way. Widely-available information is good; authoritative information is better.

Education From Afar

For decades, education has been something that happened in a traditional classroom. It has been only within the last several decades that long-distance learning has become a viable and accessible education option. Online schooling is not only cheaper, it is also easier. In the future, it might be the exception to the rule to pay for room and board. While meeting and chat platforms are already making online schooling easy, future technology might bring the classroom environment right to your living room. Virtual technology could be the future of long-distance education, creating a 3D and interactive classroom for each student.

One of the most exciting parts of exploring the future of education is that nobody really knows exactly what twists and turns will happen along the path. While technology has advanced enough that experts can get a glimpse, advancements happen so fast that the reality could end up being far more exciting than anybody anticipated.

Cite this article:
Petrovic D (2011-04-22 06:47:03). Future of education. Australian Science. Retrieved: May 06, 2024, from http://australianscience.com.au/education/future-of-education/

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Dan — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:05:13 +0000

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Cite this article:
Petrovic D (2011-02-11 08:05:13). . Australian Science. Retrieved: May 06, 2024, from http://australianscience.com.au/news/6969/

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