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Ethical and Cultural Issues
1980S a few people began using desk computers
1990s
When people began surfing the web, they were using three or four computers at once
one to look at the web page
one to retrieve the web page
and a couple more to pass information over the Internet
Today
You probably routinely use 20 or more computers simultaneously without even being aware of most of them!
What computers are you using when you are
At home
At school
In town
In a car
Artificial Intelligence
The same techniques used by AlphaGo can be used to teach computers to:
recognise faces
translate between languages
show relevant advertisements to Internet users
drive cars
what jobs robots can do
Accountants, cashiers, sports referees, legal secretaries and cleaners are already being replaced by robots
Maidbot is a company building robots to clean hotel rooms
Another company has invented an automated hamburger making machine
The UK has lost 31,000 jobs in the legal profession
It is estimated that by 2018 there will be 35 million service robots ‘at work’
robots in healthcare
There are around 165,000 healthcare apps for smartphones
By 2017 they will have been downloaded an estimated total of 1.7 billion times
Wearable technology can offer continuous, long-term monitoring
This can lead to improvements in the way that diseases like epilepsy, asthma and diabetes are managed
downside of retailing
Space must be rented, often in an expensive location
Staff are needed to unpack deliveries
Shelves must be restocked
Think of some other problems of owning a clothing store on the High Street
clothing stores
Disadvantages
Employees spend time restocking shelves, so less time to attend to customers
It is hard to predict which items will sell and which will have to be marked down at the end of the season
Advantages
Customers can try on clothes, shoes, etc. and check the fit and feel of the item
They have the item to wear the same night
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