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Contents Overview PREFACE GETTING STARTED CHAPTER 1 COMPUTERS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND YOU IT Illustrated: The History of Computing CHAPTER 2 SOFTWARE CHAPTER 3 GOING ONLINE CHAPTER 4 INSIDE THE COMPUTER IT Illustrated: The Computer on a Chip CHAPTER 5 STORAGE AND INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICES CHAPTER 6 NETWORKS AND NETWORKING IT Illustrated: Personal Computing Buyer's Guide CHAPTER 7 IT ETHICS, PRIVACY, AND CRIME ANSWERS TO SELF-CHECK QUESTIONS GLOSSARY INDEX Contents GETTING STARTED A Computer System Working with Windows Software: Popular Applications Going Online CHAPTER 1 COMPUTERS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND YOU 1-1 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCY 1-2 OUR CHALLENGE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 1-3 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN OUR LIVES 1-4 OUR GLOBAL VILLAGE 1-5 PERSONAL COMPUTERS TO SUPERCOMPUTERS 1-6 COMPUTER SYSTEM CAPABILITIES IT Illustrated: The Computer on a Chip CHAPTER 2 SOFTWARE 2-1 THE OPERATING SYSTEM 2-2 WINDOWS CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY 2-3 PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE: THE SOFTWARE SUITE 2-4 A CORNUCOPIA OF PC SOFTWARE 2-5 GRAPHICS SOFTWARE AND MULTIMEDIA CHAPTER 3 GOING ONLINE 3-1 THE INTERNET 3-2 INTERNET BROWSERS 3-3 INTERNET RESOURCES AND APPLICATIONS 3-4 INTERNET ISSUES CHAPTER 4 INSIDE THE COMPUTER 4-1 DIGITAL: THE LANGUAGE OF COMPUTERS 4-2 THE PC SYSTEM UNIT 4-3 DESCRIBING THE PROCESSOR AND ITS PERFORMANCE 4-4 PROCESSOR DESIGN IT Illustrated: The History of Computing CHAPTER 5 STORAGE AND INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICES 5-1 MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE 5-3 OPTICAL LASER DISCS 5-3 INPUT DEVICES 5-4 OUTPUT DEVICES ***Prod and Ed: Chs 6-11 are not complete at this time, so anything related to Chs 6-11 is draft. CHAPTER 6 NETWORKS AND NETWORKING 6-1 OUR WIRED WORLD 6-2 DATA COMMUNICATIONS HARDWARE 6-3 THE DATA COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL 6-4 NETWORKS 6-5 HOME NETWORKING IT Illustrated: Personal Computing Buyer's Guide CHAPTER 7 IT ETHICS, PRIVACY, AND CRIME 7-1 ETHICS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 7-2 WORKPLACE ETHICS: HEALTHY COMPUTING 7-3 THE PRIVACY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION 7-4 COMPUTER AND IT CRIME ANSWERS TO SELF-CHECK QUESTIONS GLOSSARY INDEX IT Ethics and Issues, Personal Computing, and Crystal Ball Special Interest Items ***Prod: Please supply page numbers after each subitem below*** Chapter 1 IT Ethics and Issues Should PC Ownership Be an Entrance Requirement for Colleges? Hate Sites on the Internet Chapter 2 IT Ethics and Issues The Quality of Software Counterfeit Software Personal Computing Killer Apps The Worth of the Software Bundle The Crystal Ball Open Source Software Explosion Software Updates Overnight Chapter 3 IT Ethics and Issues E-Mail Etiquette The Unwanted Chat Room Guest Ads in Personal E-mail Personal Computing Broadband vs. Narrowband Choosing a Broadband Service The Crystal Ball The Ubiquitous Internet Expanding Online Services Audio Mail: An Alternative to Text E-Mail Chapter 4 IT Ethics and Issues Is What We See and Hear Real or Not? The Digital Divide: Is It Racial or Economic? Recycling Old Computers Personal Computing Planning for USB RAM, Cache, and System Performance The Crystal Ball Keeping Pace with Moore's Law Will Solid-State Memory Replace Rotating Memory? Grid Computing Coming of Age Chapter 5 IT Ethics and Issues Assistive Technology in the IT Workplace File Sharing The Spycam Personal Computing Drive Your New PC Hard Sharing Peripheral Devices Using Digital Cameras for File Transfer What Input/Output Peripheral Devices Do You Need? The Crystal Ball Talking with Computers Dual Monitors in Your Future The Paperless Society Chapter 6 IT Ethics and Issues Monitoring of Personal Communications Term-Paper Fraud Accessibility to E-mail Archives The Internet's Impact on the Family Unit Sharing Internet Access via Wireless Personal Computing Justifying the Cost of Broadband Internet Access Building a Home Network The Crystal Ball 24/7 Connectivity Fax on the Brink of Extinction Chapter 7 IT Ethics and Issues Violating the Copyright of Intellectual Property Scanning for Shoplifters Moral Filtering of Internet Content Prescreening of Online Communications Inappropriate Use of the Internet at Work Personal Computing Spyware Virus Protection The Crystal Ball Centralized Online Placement Services for College Graduates Online Voting on the Horizon
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Computers, Information storage and retrieval systems, Information technology