Information Technology

System Category

• Necessary Systems
  • Infrastructure
    • Products

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System Brief

Information Technology unlocks the ability to preserve and manipulate information. IT Products are accessible forms of IT Tools.

Justification

• Necessity
  • Information Technology allows people to use information beyond storytelling and cave paintings.
• Sustainability
  • Information Technology allows people to expand their ability to manipulate information to create more efficient tools to maintain the community more efficiently.
• Quality of Life
  • Information Technology has allowed people to understand their world with a level of precision and certainty to avoid potentially dangerous scenarios. As well as bringing a breadth of information complexity that has evolved into maths, sciences, engineering, design, art, and all the weird thoughts we have.
  • IT Products allow IT Tools to be more accessible for all audiences.

System Functions

Information Technology interacts with information in the following ways:

• Observation
  • This function allows people to sense different phenomenon from light, sound, smell, touch, etc.
  • This has been extended by digital sensors able to turn observations into data.
• Attention
  • This function allows people to focus on a specific piece of information, to prevent observation overload and use mental energy efficiently.
  • This has been extended digitally with algorithms to better distinguish relevant information.
• Abstraction
  • This function allows people to deconstruct an observation into simpler parts, which can be easily measured and compared against.
  • This has been extended digitally with Computer Sciences, allowing various observations to be abstracted into binary data.
• Memorization
  • This function allows people to retain information across long periods of time.
  • This has been extended digitally with magnetic tape, etched vinyl, disc drives, and solid state drives. Preserving information for decades.
• Decision
  • This function allows people to change information.
  • This cannot be extended digitally, decisions must be performed by people. Attempts to artificially produce decisions introduce risks without intention, which is a risk to everyone.
• Prediction
  • This function allows people to anticipate the effects of an observation or decision.
  • This has been extended digitally with graphing and modeling software, reach new complexities and future certainties.
• Categorization
  • This function allows people to associate information.
  • This has been extended digitally with data structures.
• Composition
  • This function allows people to contain abstract information into discrete thoughts.
  • This has been extended digitally with word processing and CAD software, allowing people to edit and refine ideas.
• Communication
  • This function allows people to share information with other people.
  • This has been extended digitally with radio waves, phone lines, and fiber-optic internet lines. As well as software platforms to communicate publicly and privately.

System Output

• Hardware is the physical object that contains the software.
  • Analog does not use electricity to operate.
    • Paper, Books, Mechanical Printers, etc.
    • Scribes, Pencils, Pens, etc.
    • Clocks, Calendars, etc.
    • Abacus, Mechanical Calculators, etc.
  • Digital uses electricity to operate.
    • Digital Sensors, Digital Display, Digital Printers, etc.
    • Digital Inputs, Keyboards, Mouse, etc.
    • Digital Timers
    • Computers, Digital Calculators, etc.
• Software
  • Analog
    • Language
      • Spoken
      • Visual
      • Written
    • Maths
    • Sciences
  • Digital
    • Language (Binary)
    • Opertors
      • Command Line
      • GUI
    • Applications

System Input

• Hardware
  • Information
    • Material Data, Standards, Regulations, Processes
    • Production DSRP
    • Manufacturing DSRP
    • Distribution DSRP
    • Service DSRP
  • Resources
    • Materials
      • Paper
      • Scribe
      • Glass
      • Plastics
      • Compounds
      • Metals
      • Rare Earth Elements
    • Tools
      • Construction
      • Manufacturing
      • Storage
      • Distribution
      • Information Technology
  • Locations
    • Raw Material Sites
    • Production Offices
    • Manufacturing Sites
    • Distribution Sites
    • Service Sites
  • Labor
    • Material Extraction
    • Production Design
    • Production Engineering
    • Manufacturing Design
    • Manufacturing Engineering
    • Distribution Design
    • Distribution Engineering
    • Service Design
    • Service
• Software
  • Information
    • Binary Language DSRP
    • Production DSRP
    • Maintenance DSRP
    • Service DRSP
  • Resources
    • Materials
      • Paper
      • Scribe
    • Tools
      • Information Technology
  • Locations
    • Production Offices
    • Service Sites
  • Labor
    • Production Design
    • Production Engineering
    • Maintenance Engineering
    • Service Design
    • Service