2. ICT EVOLUTION
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a term used to
describe technologies in manipulating and communicating information
• ICT (information and communications technology - or technologies) is
an umbrella term that includes any communication device or application,
encompassing:
3. There are four main periods
-PREMECHANICAL
-MECHANICAL
-ELECTROMECHANICAL
-ELECTRONIC PERIODS
4. PREMECHANICAL
• The premechanical age is the earliest age of information technology. It can
be defined as the time between 3000B.C. and 1450A.D. We are talking about
a long time ago.
5. MECHANICAL
• Industrial processes are procedures involving chemical, physical, electrical
ormechanical steps to aid in the manufacturing of an item or items, usually
carried out on a very large scale. Industrial processes are the key
components of heavy industry.
7. ELECTRONIC PERIODS
• is the branch of science that deals with the study of flow and control of
electrons (electricity) and the study of their behavior and effects in vacuums,
gases, and semiconductors, and with devices using such electrons