Mobile Computing
Mobile Computing:
Past, Present, and Future
Imagine a world without the Internet, online shopping, gaming, social networking, or up to the second news updates. All of these things could not have happened without the advent of mobile computing and the technology that has expanded over time. Just think, thirty years ago, we did not have any of these things, but they were starting to take shape. This paper will show you how mobile computing got its start and some of the technologies that are involved in that area such as laptop computers and cellphone technologies. Then, will move into the current state of mobile computing and how those same technologies have improved over the years. Finally, some of the possible future trends involved in mobile computing and its technologies. Everything that we use today as far as mobile computing technologies could not have existed without the advancement of computers in general, but how did mobile computing get its start?
The company that really began what many consider today to be the beginning of the modern computer age has to be IBM. According to Campbell-Kelly and Aspray (1996), It was 1964 when the concept of modern day computing was born when the IBM System/360 was born. This computer was compatible with the previous versions of older IBM computers of all sizes. This meant that no matter how big a company’s computer was and whatever type of programs had been written for its previous computers could work on the new IBM System/360 (Campbell-Kelly and Aspray n.d. p.142-144). IBM set the standard for pretty much all of the future computer companies that would begin creating technologies that would shape our computing world. One of those companies that truly started mobile computing starting in the late 1970’s was a little known startup called Apple Computer Inc. The two men that many consider the creators of the modern computer age are Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Steve Jobs gave an interview to INC Magazine in
Past, Present, and Future
Imagine a world without the Internet, online shopping, gaming, social networking, or up to the second news updates. All of these things could not have happened without the advent of mobile computing and the technology that has expanded over time. Just think, thirty years ago, we did not have any of these things, but they were starting to take shape. This paper will show you how mobile computing got its start and some of the technologies that are involved in that area such as laptop computers and cellphone technologies. Then, will move into the current state of mobile computing and how those same technologies have improved over the years. Finally, some of the possible future trends involved in mobile computing and its technologies. Everything that we use today as far as mobile computing technologies could not have existed without the advancement of computers in general, but how did mobile computing get its start?
The company that really began what many consider today to be the beginning of the modern computer age has to be IBM. According to Campbell-Kelly and Aspray (1996), It was 1964 when the concept of modern day computing was born when the IBM System/360 was born. This computer was compatible with the previous versions of older IBM computers of all sizes. This meant that no matter how big a company’s computer was and whatever type of programs had been written for its previous computers could work on the new IBM System/360 (Campbell-Kelly and Aspray n.d. p.142-144). IBM set the standard for pretty much all of the future computer companies that would begin creating technologies that would shape our computing world. One of those companies that truly started mobile computing starting in the late 1970’s was a little known startup called Apple Computer Inc. The two men that many consider the creators of the modern computer age are Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Steve Jobs gave an interview to INC Magazine in
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