| Around one hundred and fifty years ago, businesses | | | | substantial roll. Doctors take pictures with machines |
| ran their day to day operations completely different | | | | like a computerized axial tomography (CAT) or |
| from what businesses of the modern era do to run | | | | magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and can print out |
| their day to day operations. People back then | | | | three dimensional images of bones, muscles, and |
| worked under candle light doing math calculations on | | | | organs. These images can help map out patient's |
| paper, the old fashion way, before electricity came | | | | problems and help save lives. This day and age, it is |
| about in the early 20th century. Now, most of the | | | | difficult to find a field or industry that IT has not |
| civilized world wouldn't know what to do with | | | | been greatly affected. |
| themselves without technology. Imagine not even | | | | IT is completely responsible for how organized our |
| having a calculator for math or the internet to do | | | | civilization has become. The corporate world was only |
| research. Yes, I know, it is hard to believe people | | | | made possible by the communication information |
| were able to survive without these advanced tools | | | | technology has put in place between both computer |
| that we take for granted each day. The advances in | | | | software and hardware. From a personal stand point, |
| communication combined with the evolution of the IT | | | | it would be difficult for most people to name a single |
| industry has made it possible for people to do | | | | person doesn't use the internet on a regular basis. |
| business throughout the world in real time. | | | | With the increasing new technologies coming out |
| Improvements in IT improve our lifestyles and | | | | everyday, employees in the Information Technology |
| business by allowing computers to reduce | | | | work force must constantly re-educate themselves |
| complications and enrich possibilities. | | | | with all the new technologies. This makes IT a very |
| These days, the name "Information Technology" has | | | | demanding field as it is always developing and |
| managed to encompass many aspects of computer | | | | perfecting. The process of improvement is what |
| technologies invented in the past couple decades. | | | | makes this such a desirable aspect to almost any |
| These IT spectrums can be covered in many types | | | | business. It is very important for anyone in the IT |
| of professional fields such as Management | | | | field to always stay up to date with all newly |
| Information Systems, Computer Networking, and | | | | developing technologies that relate to their industry. |
| Software Design. Our ancestors couldn't even fathom | | | | IT is now the complete backbone to almost any |
| what our society has accomplished. | | | | business and its ability to be competitive and efficient. |
| In medicine, Information Technology also plays a | | | | |