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CI-310 : Aug 30, 2000

	CI-310 Information Systems Applications, 3 credits		Admin/ General
	Wednesday evenings, 6:00 - 8:50 pm Hale 306		Schedule
	Instructor: Ed Quigley 724.774.2088
	Dept. Head: Dave Wood, Ph.D. 412.262.2788		Links

Class Discussion.

Toffler's Three Waves: Farms, Factories, Floppies.
- Digital vs Analog info & processes
- Place Doesn't Matter
- Digital Convergence
- Disintermediation
- Price Discrimination (Yield Management)
- One-to-One Marketing. Viral Marketing.
- Mass Customization
- HyperOrganizations
- Projects not Products
- Network Economies
- IT as a competitive advantage (Verifone, Fedex, WalMart, Kinkos)
Data, Information, Knowledge
- Present Usage
- memes
- Some Theories: interrogative, epidemiological
- Implications
Communication: Ethos, Pathos, Logos
- History
- Examples
- Does Communication Matter?
Integration:
- What does 2nd-3rd wave transition mean to DIK?
- What does 2nd-3rd wave transition mean to E-P-L?
- How does communication change in the third wave?
- How does communication handle the differences among DIK?
- How does communication affect the IT field?
Is the Web a given?
- Problem of the Commons: CB's, NPH, telegraph
- WW2 : the new web.
- National governments desire governance
- taxation and nexus
- Can we run a web economy when 16 year-olds can shut it off?

Something Optional to Read: As We May Think, Vannevar Bush.
Think the web started in '98?? Here's the 1945 article that sparked it. (Preemo Interview Stuff).

To Do For Next Class:

Have all the books
Obtain an email address
Read Chapter One, Laudon and Laudon
Know Case Study, pg. 34-35. Be prepared to discuss.
Assignment One: Laudon pg. 33. Consider questions 2, 6, 8, 10, 13. Answer any three of these five questions.
Points to Ponder:
- Point to Ponder 1: Identify presence (or lack) of ethos, pathos, logos in instructor's presentation.
- Point to Ponder 2: What else should the class website have to be most effective?
It is your option to elect to substitute one of these P2P for one of the three questions in Assignment One.
To restate: you may answer any two questions from (2, 6, 8, 10, 13) plus one of the P2P's.
Assignment Two will involve work on problems using SolveIt!, so it may be wise to get it installed and take a look at it.