Social, Professional and Ethical Aspects of IT

                        Week 3      From Wiki To Wikipedia Wiki is a website, where users can use or change the content independently using the tools provided by the site itself.   Formatting text and inserting various objects into the text is done using wiki markup.   In particular, Wikipedia and other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation are built on the basis of these principles.  The wiki allows all users to edit any page or create new pages on a wiki site using a regular web browser without any extensions. A wiki maintains links between different pages by almost intuitively creating links to other pages and displaying whether the page exists or not. The wiki is not a carefully crafted site for casual visitors. On the contrary, Wiki strives to engage visitors in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the look of the site. Vandalism Many wikis allow anyone to change their content. Just as the walls of buildings and fences are covered with obscene wr

                           Week 2 Obsolete technologies      As we know a  massive amount of new technologies were developed in the 20th century. People made many inventions in different fields, including internet. But today, many of them are forgotten and replaced by newer technologies.  However, some were developed and are still used by many  people PDA A  personal digital assistant  ( PDA ), also known as a  handheld PC  is  a portable computing device with broad functionality.   The PDA is often called a " palmtop"  because of its small size.   Initially, PDAs were intended for use as electronic organizers.   It is impossible to make calls from a “classic” PDA, and a PDA is not a mobile phone, therefore, by now, classic PDAs are almost completely replaced by communicators - PDAs with a cellular communication module and smartphones. The first PDA, the  Organiser , was released in 1984 by  Psion , followed by  Psion's Series 3 , in 1991. The latter began to resemble the

Week 1 One luck comes from a thousand of failures "I have not faile d. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work" by Thomas Edison.  As we all know the inventions and new technologies are significant for human progress. However,  there are many examples of disappointments and failures in history associated with inventions, which still happen in today's world. Some inventions failed due to their uselessness, some are just ahead of their time. Likely some startups or inventions that are considered as failures will gain popularity in future. 1) Segway The goal of the company was very ambitious, namely, the organizers of the Segway startup swung at the creation of a radically new apparatus for human movement. We are talking about two-wheeled vehicles, which could become an excellent alternative to modern cars, but with the condition of environmentally friendly use. The budget for this idea was $ 125 million. It proved to be more prosaic to use this middle-inc