Chances are, if you are reading this right now, you are either on a phone, desktop, pc, maybe an xbox or playstation console, but you are definitely using a piece of technology to see this. It's amazing that something as simple as this blog could possibly reach millions of people because of the technology we now use. We can see that we have come a long way in how we are not only able to view things online, but how we can reach people. And it's all possible through information technology...
So, just what is information technology anyway? We throw the term around quite a lot and just attach a lot to it. "Information Technology" is defined as the study or use of systems (especially computers and telecommunications) for storing, retrieving, and sending information.1 In simple terms, how we get information from my computer to yours. Right now I'm on blogspot, typing away, while the website is saving my draft until I'm ready to publish it. When you are ready, you put in the url, and your computer (in more complicated steps than what I'm describing here) is able to pull up the saved information.
If you can, for a moment, think of things we have already accomplished, such as printing multiple copies of the bible, dictionaries, and using hieroglyphics, then it's easier to understand that humans have been storing, retrieving, and sending information to each other for generations. However, the exact term "information technology" did not pop up until 1958 when Harold J. Leavitt and Thomas L. Whisler first coined it in the Harvard Business Review article acknowledging that technology did name have a name. Thus they coined it "information technology."2
If you can, for a moment, think of things we have already accomplished, such as printing multiple copies of the bible, dictionaries, and using hieroglyphics, then it's easier to understand that humans have been storing, retrieving, and sending information to each other for generations. However, the exact term "information technology" did not pop up until 1958 when Harold J. Leavitt and Thomas L. Whisler first coined it in the Harvard Business Review article acknowledging that technology did name have a name. Thus they coined it "information technology."2
There are plenty of specialties under IT (its shortened name). According to Indeed.com, you could become an IT Support Specialist (helping customers with computer programming issues), a Web Developer (building websites for businesses), a Database Administrator (being a data tracker) and plenty more.3 It all depends on what your interests are and the type of money you are looking to make in the long run.
While this may have been a short snippet of what IT entails, the subject is massive as far as specialties go and what is included. There's also another discipline called Computer Science, which I'll write on next. Until next time.
1Indeed Editorial Team. (2020, February
4). 21 different types of IT
jobs to explore. Indeed Career Guide. https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/types-of-it-jobs
2Information
technology English definition and meaning | Lexico.com. (n.d.). Lexico
Dictionaries | English. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/information_technology
3Management in the 1980’s. (1958, November 1). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/1958/11/management-in-the-1980s
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