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Unit 14 Information Systems Today 今天的信息系统 Information technology is important and indispensable to the life of human beings. Trammission, recording or memory and processing of information are three essential process of information. Virtually, the information technology has been changing everyday. The basic challenge of the coming decade is how to make the already available technologies as useful and friendly to a user as the telephone or television set is to the common man. Computers are a major segment of the new information technologies. The constant growth of semiconductor technology and the proliferation (增殖) of the semiconductor memory devices has brought possibilities that you use personal computers to do anything you want to, for instance, record a message and phone back an answer. With the help of satellite communication, the transmission of data has become very fast. The data can be telexed(电传)；the voice over a telephone can be transmitted on local, national and international network. The transmission of images through technology, thats via a TV, is again going to be a major challenge, as how to combine all these three components of information technology into one. It will bring about various problems. The first is the privacy that goes with it. For further addition to the impact of communication, one can switch over from voices to images and data, depending on an individuals need. It is major challenge before the society at large and the library professionals as how to compress a library into a computer. Moreover, on the users part it is not easy to sit at a terminal and read. Basically some psychological and social changes especially exert a subtle influence on the minds of the young children, so that they grow up with the habit of reading on a computer screen. It is also a fact that a large number of computers have been used as sophisticated typewriters. If you ask somebody who is the actual user of the computer, it is probably the secretary. A lot of P