Tracking Cell Phone Technology
The daily impact of digital technology over the past five years on the creative, production, marketing, and management facets of the graphic arts industry has forced both industry and vendor executives alike to admit to various degrees of elation, depression, stress, consternation, bewilderment, and migraine headaches. This is not all a result of mobile tracking technology or cell phone spying software. http://cellspyinghq.com
The brief observations and comments that follow are not intended to extend the symptoms or deepen the lingering pain but rather to reinforce the value of monitoring the directions of digital technology.
As most executives know, the gyrations of the microprocessor (chip) and computer industries control to a great degree the digital technology changes that are imposed on the industry.
Following are a number of developments that executives might wish to track for making better management decisions about cell monitoring:
* Thumbnail-size chips now carry between three million and four million transistors, and future chips will carry as many as seven million transistors. This translates to more powerful computing, and will push productivity of graphic arts systems to higher levels.
* The coupling of greater speed and increased bandwidth for moving large volumes of phone data in and out of internal and external systems demands that users better understand man/machine relationships with respect to operator training and increased productivity.
* Authority has been granted for New Jersey Bell to install border-to-border fiber optic systems in the state by the year 2010 at a cost of $1.5 billion and freezing for seven years its basic residential rates. The fiber optic network can provide for two-way educational, medical, entertainment, and digital information sources. This could advance multimedia applications for the home, public areas, private surveillance and cell phone spying applications, shopping centers, educational institutions, government centers at all levels, and business offices.
* AT&T has announced its Personal Communicator priced at up to $3,900 which permits a user to write on an electronic screen with a special pen, store the notes, and/ or fax them with a recorded message, and of course make a phone call. A Smart Phone and a Videophone complete the initial multimedia thrust by AT&T. Presently a Videophone set (2 units) is priced at $2,000, while the Smart Phone is expected to cost $500 or less and available in late 1993.
* Telephones without wires, also known as cellular service, permit the moving of digital data without an actual connection. Pacific Telesis Group, a regional Bell company, has split into a $1 billion cellular company and a $9 billion traditional telephone company. How this technology will affect printed products is still to be determined.
* Comment and advice from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focuses on Bit Radiation, a model for delivery of information in which bits represent content but not form. Form--TV, books, magazines, advertising, etc. will be determined by the user or consumer according to his/her tastes and interests. Says the Media Lab director, "I feel sorry for the prepress people. They should start looking for new businesses, and should diversify soon. I say this with an open heart."
The brief observations and comments that follow are not intended to extend the symptoms or deepen the lingering pain but rather to reinforce the value of monitoring the directions of digital technology.
As most executives know, the gyrations of the microprocessor (chip) and computer industries control to a great degree the digital technology changes that are imposed on the industry.
Following are a number of developments that executives might wish to track for making better management decisions about cell monitoring:
* Thumbnail-size chips now carry between three million and four million transistors, and future chips will carry as many as seven million transistors. This translates to more powerful computing, and will push productivity of graphic arts systems to higher levels.
* The coupling of greater speed and increased bandwidth for moving large volumes of phone data in and out of internal and external systems demands that users better understand man/machine relationships with respect to operator training and increased productivity.
* Authority has been granted for New Jersey Bell to install border-to-border fiber optic systems in the state by the year 2010 at a cost of $1.5 billion and freezing for seven years its basic residential rates. The fiber optic network can provide for two-way educational, medical, entertainment, and digital information sources. This could advance multimedia applications for the home, public areas, private surveillance and cell phone spying applications, shopping centers, educational institutions, government centers at all levels, and business offices.
* AT&T has announced its Personal Communicator priced at up to $3,900 which permits a user to write on an electronic screen with a special pen, store the notes, and/ or fax them with a recorded message, and of course make a phone call. A Smart Phone and a Videophone complete the initial multimedia thrust by AT&T. Presently a Videophone set (2 units) is priced at $2,000, while the Smart Phone is expected to cost $500 or less and available in late 1993.
* Telephones without wires, also known as cellular service, permit the moving of digital data without an actual connection. Pacific Telesis Group, a regional Bell company, has split into a $1 billion cellular company and a $9 billion traditional telephone company. How this technology will affect printed products is still to be determined.
* Comment and advice from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focuses on Bit Radiation, a model for delivery of information in which bits represent content but not form. Form--TV, books, magazines, advertising, etc. will be determined by the user or consumer according to his/her tastes and interests. Says the Media Lab director, "I feel sorry for the prepress people. They should start looking for new businesses, and should diversify soon. I say this with an open heart."