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Apr 22 2009, 9:19 AM EDT Not_PaulBui
Apr 17 2009, 3:31 PM EDT carms 1 word added, 2 words deleted

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Business and Employment

  • Transportation: reservation systems, luggage processing, traffic simulation, smart roads and cars, fuel efficiency and traffic safety systems
  • Employment: electronic employee monitoring, telecommuting, ergonomics and health, job obsolescence and retraining, online job search, employee surveillance
  • Banking and finance: EFT, ATMs, Internet banking and brokerage, electronic cash, insurance
  • International commerce: management of transnational corporations, business concentration
  • E-Commerce: teleshopping, online marketing, data mining, spyware
  • Retailing, advertising, media.

Education

  • Telelearning: isolated and remote areas; use in hospitals, prisons, retirement homes
  • Special needs accomodations: voice recognition software, text-to speech, special input and output devices, Internet resources
  • Software in the classroom: science experiments, modelling and simulation, instructional tools and media, computer-aided instruction, computer-aided learning, training tutorials and simulations
  • School library systems: catalogues, security systems, online research
  • Hardware in the classroom: laptops, notebooks, teleconferencing, USB drives
  • Software in school administration: attendance and grade reporting, scheduling, Intranets, public information

Health


Arts, Entertainment and Leisure


Science and the Environment

  • Modelling and simulation: digital experimentation, demographic and environmental simulation
  • Visualization: mapping
  • Data search, collection, processing and analysis
  • Forecasting
  • Data logging

Politics and Government

  • Political process: voting and elections, lobbying, open government and free movement of information
  • Government administration: record keeping, tax collection, policy implementation, use of databases by FBI and CIA
  • Legislation: policy development, enactment, enforcement and analysis
  • Police: DNA data collection, video surveillance, data matching
  • Military: cyberwarfare, smart weapons development, espionage
  • terrorism and the use of IT