Recent trends in theworld of computers – Thought and facts

What is the computer?

Commodore 16 – smartphone

For what purpose the user want to use? Everything or only a few applications?

Mostly only a few application.

Then

- text editing, word processing

- game

- data manipulation

- special applications

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- image manipulation

- data storage

Now

- communication

- game

- data manipulation

- image manipulation

- special applications

- data storage

- text editing, word processing

State: M$ Windows is the most spreaded, almost everybody use this.

And the reality. . .

Tablets (170 million iPad sold in oct. 2013.)

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Prediction

Number of desktop computers will hardly decrease, – Windows as well

Number of mobile devices will increase – Linux/Unix as well

Present youngs (adults of the future) mostly uses mobile devices and web-based, on-line applications

- in the future will increase the role of mobile application - desktop applications will only a small part of the software market - the largest part of the software market will the targeted, special

applications- the role of desktop GIS will decrease, – will used mostly for analysis

and large-data manipulation- small, flexible targeted GIS softwares will used- web-based GIS technology will rule the GIS- off-line GIS will hardly decrease, on-line GIS will the adequate use of

the GIS applications.

Education – how to teach? What to teach?

Because of the on-line solutions, not the software itself will impor-tant (the mark, the provider or the manufacturer), but the file-format and the interoperability