What is Information Technology? Define Digital Convergence and Modern Scenario of Information Technology.

What is Information Technology? Define Digital Convergence and Modern Scenario of Information Technology. 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: 

• It is a technology that combines computing with high speed communication links that carry data in the form of text, sound, images, video etc. from one place to another in this global village (all over the world). 

• The interconnection of computers enables people to send and receive information. 

• Internet is also used as a source of information technology.

DIGITAL CONVERGENCE: 

• In digital convergence different types of things are converted into a digital form.
• The digital convergence is the technological merger of the various industries through some electronic devices that exchange information between them.

MODERN SCENARIO OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: 

• Modern scenario means the modern situation of the information technology.
 • The base of information technology is computing and high speed communication through satellite, fiber optic, mobile phones, fax-machine, ecommerce, MCommerce etc.
• IT brought a revolution in our life and it is called computer revolution, Information Revolution, Multi-media revolution, communication revolution or Internet revolution.

 • The major application of computers are: 

• o AI (Artificial Intelligence): It is used to develop machines with humanlike qualities such as learning, seeing and hearing etc. 
•  Web Based Applications: It is a type of software application that is available on the Web. The user can use it by connecting to the Internet. 
•  E-Commerce: It is a process of performing business over the Internet. o M-Commerce: It is a process of buying goods and services using mobile phone. 
• Computer Animation: It is a process to create moving images using computer. 
• Multimedia and Hypermedia: Multimedia is a collection of graphics, animation, audio and video presented by computer. Hypermedia is a process of creating links to files that contain photographs, audio, video and text etc. 
• Distributed Applications: It is a process of running single task on multiple computers.