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The Red Team • Leader: – Ekaterina Aksenova • Speaker 1 (Impact Of Toys On Society): – Conor O’Malley • Helpers: – Michael Doyle – Owen Mc. Nally • Speaker 2 (Gimmicks): – Neil Mc. Gough • Helper: – Colin Lyons 9/30/2020 • Speaker 3(Privacy): – Niall Casey • Helpers: – Rehal Massoud – Declan Mc. Guire • Rebuttal: – Kate • Power. Point – Declan Mc. Guire 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 2

Speaker 1: Conor O’Malley Helpers: Owen Mc. Nally 9/30/2020 Michael Doyle 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 3

Toy • Definition – 1. “Something of little importance. ” – 2. ”An amusement. ” 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 4

Computer Games And Robots 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 5

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Sales Of Computer Games Console North America Japan/Asia Europe Total Playstation 2 29. 26 million 16. 18 million 24. 56 million 70 million Xbox 8. 6 million 1. 4 million 3. 7 million 13. 7 million Game. Cube 7. 46 million 3. 37 million 3. 11 million 13. 94 million -(www. pcvsconsole. com) 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 7

Mobile Phones 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 8

Concentration Of I. T. In Developed World Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Amish Community, US New York, US 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 9

Thoreau’s Quote “…so with a hundred other ‘modern improvements’… our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but an improved means to an unimproved end…. ” 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 10

Speaker 2: Neil Mc. Gough Helper : Colin Lyons 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 11

Growth And Trends In I. T. • How this relates to the topic – the uses we put IT and how these are nothing but toys. • Headings: • Games industry – figures and growth • Products – good or gimmicks? 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 12

Gaming – growth sector ATI X 800 Pro (Colin has one!) • ATI – fourth quarter – income 61. 2 Million USD • Up 174% from fourth quarter 2003 • ATI produce NOTHING but graphics cards. 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 13

Gaming – growth sector • GTA San Andreas – on release broke opening sales records in a weekend for both video games AND cinema opening releases in the UK. • Furthermore, since its release it broke all cinema release records. 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 14

Products, good or gimmicks? PROCESSOR Intel p 4 3. 06 ghz HT HDD 80 GB RAM 512 MB DDR 2 OPTICAL DRIVE DVD-RW DISPLAY 15. 4” WXGA TFT OPERATING SYSTEM Microsoft Windows XP Home FEATURES modem, , NVIDIA Ge. Force 6800 Go 256 Mb 9/30/2020 PROCESSOR AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU HDD 80 GB RAM 512 DDR 333 (2*256 MB) OPTICAL DRIVE DVD-Super Multi DISPLAY 15. 0" TFT OPERATING SYSTEM Microsoft Windows XP Home FEATURES ATi Mobility Radeon 9700 128 MB, Modem, Gbit LAN, Bluetooth, 802. 11 g Wireless LAN, 4 -in-1 Card Reader PROCESSOR Athlon 64 3400+ HDD 60 GB RAM 512 MB (2*256 MB) DDR OPTICAL DRIVE DVD-RW (Dual) DISPLAY 15. 4" WXGA TFT OPERATING SYSTEM Microsoft Windows XP Home FEATURES Modem, Gigabit LAN/802. 11 g Wireless LAN, Li. Ion, 4 -in-1 Card reader, ATi Mobility Radeon 9700 128 MB VRAM 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 15

£ 1450 inc. VAT (£ 1198 ex. VAT) Alienware Area-51 M 7700 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 16

£ 1429 inc. VAT (£ 1217 ex. VAT) Acer Ferrari 3000 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 17

£ 933 inc. VAT (£ 794 ex. VAT) Acer Aspire 1524 WLMi 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 18

Extreme Gimmicks USB Mince Pie (GT Edition) AK-MP 3 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 19

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Speaker 3: Niall Casey Helpers: Rehal Massoud 9/30/2020 Declan Mc. Guire 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 21

1984 I. T. is an improved means to an unimproved end • “You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, expect in darkness, every movement scrutinised. ” -1984, George Orwell 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 22

Our World Is Slowly Becoming Like Orwell’s • Propaganda in the news is rife after september 11 th. • Biased information is being delivered to us daily and our views are being affected. Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf (“Comical Ali”): -Presented the Iraqi people with false information to a ridiculous exent. “I see a town full of happy smiling families surrounded by trees and lakes with flower beds full of roses. I`m not dead and Iraq are winning the war. Saddam is a nice man”. 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 23

Improved Means To Unimproved End Before 9/30/2020 After 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 24

Privacy In The Workplace • Email – Employers are legally allowed to monitor email • “Even if there is no written agreement an employer can still peek into email. ”(www. nolo. com) – Email statements of employees can live on indefinitely on in backup files. – Software is freely available to monitor emails. 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 25

Spam • Spyware and Cookies (Cheers for the pic greens!) – Find your personal information, send emails accordingly. – ISP’s and search engines monitor users as they travel across Internet. – The government and police are installing recording boxes in ISP’s to record Internet surfing and downloads for evidence. (www 2. palsol. com/ee 1/? hop=sellitnow) – In one test by the US Federal Trade Commission, an e-mail address posted in a chat room began receiving within eight minutes of submitting a post. (www. privacyinternational. org) 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 26

U. S. -VISIT Programme George Bush Is Watching You! • • • 9/30/2020 From Thursday September 30 2004, all visitors to the United States will be electronically facescanned and fingerprinted on the US border US-VISIT will collect, assess, process and retain biographic, travel and biometric information on visitors to the US. Data on travellers from ally countries will be kept alongside data collected from nationals of countries that threaten to wage war, or are or were at war with the US -(www. privacyinternational. org) 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 27

DARPA • Monitors everything electronically 9/30/2020 1 BA 6 Red Group Class Presentation – I. T. Is But A Pretty Toy 28

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