By Raul Bernardino
Abstracts:
It is now become public knowledge that the Information and Technology
(IT) evolution and revolution have become a part of the human life and it
brings new culture and norms to the society. It is now become an integral part
of the human society. Every effort that is built toward the new technologies is
for the sake of the society.
Technology now brings human being more closer, things can be monitored
more closely by using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Global Positioning
System (GPS), social networks such as Facebook, Skype, IBM Connections and
Sametime, twitter, Bebo, etc., technology helps users to have flexible of
communicating with their respected partners, users have flexible time for learning
without have to travel to the destination course venue, etc., technology can
helping doctors to do proper diagnostics, surgeries, therapies, intelligent
machines, and etc.
Introduction:
We are currently in the middle of technology
revolution; information technology grows in every hour’s event every second
around the world. Human are so creative and innovative to develop new
technology and system for the sake of society. Moreover, we are informed of the
birth of new technology. This technology industry revolution has covered other
sectors such as education, health, environment, medicine, mechanical
industries, chemical industries, agriculture, products and services in the
markets, communication, etc. Additionally, information technology sector becomes
a multi-disciplinary sector. Therefore each of the sectors will be always tied
to the evolution of information and the technology. As computing professionals,
we have to accept that, we should continually study and research and also to be
the focal point of this industry revolution and evolution. All computing
professionals, scientists, and researchers have tried to give their answers to
the needs and the requirements of the society however, how this sector may be will
continue to improve or may be will change in the following years? Who knows?
Information and Technology job’s Titles in Market:
More than 50 job titles are globally available and apply differently to
the industrial sectors, institutions, organizations, companies, and
governments. It depends on each sectors needs and requirements. The effective ratio
of having computing professional in their organizations is 1:15 means 1
computing professional can effectively serve 15 employees in the institution.
This computing professional can be deployed internally or outsourcing. There
are several studies have been done toward the ratio. According to computer economics (August 2013) stated
that Help Desk Staffing Steady over Time.
The ratio will vary by organization size and sectors, however, below graphic
provide some illustration after did an assessment of the overall help desk
staffing trend.
There are 14 key of IT jobs function that each organization has to have. They are:
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some cases the IT staff has multi-function. For instance, Help desk staff does
desktop support function or even does Network support function. In the
professional manner, each function has to fill up with one specific profession.
List of I.T. Job Title:
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these job titles above can be filled? In my own opinion, these job titles can
be filled by professionals who as higher education in information and
technology plus experiences and skills in the field, who attends specific
course, exam, and certified and also globally recognize and comply such as
ITPM, Cisco CCNA, IBM Notes, etc.
Some future computing profession perspective:
The
information revolution has come as primary needs of the society; nowadays
without assessing information a person will be isolated. In other hand
information becomes an expensive and only available for those who have money. The
distribution of the information is still not fully reach out to the indigenous
people in the remote locations. As computing profession has to think how to
bring technology and information that is fitted to indigenous people. For
instance, develop graphic interface, screen touch technology, voice recognize tools,
etc.
In 10 years’ Time:
I assume that in ten year time, the computing professional
figures will change; however, the natural revolution of the information
continues and actual situation will be improving and more close nature. I think,
the biggest revolution and evolution will be on total integration of the cloud
computing inside the organizations. "Cloud computing is internet-based
computing in which the cloud is really an arena for sharing," (Pitta,
D.A., 2011). Therefore, computing professional has to be ready to develop and
implement these systems. Additionally, the computing professional has to know
how to protect them. The computing professional skills that should have and
ready are computer programming, computer security, and networking. In other
end, the hardware devices evolution has to think about the environmental
impact. The Green IT is become a popular in last few years back and will
continue to do so. "Companies in the 21st century accept and
acknowledge their responsibility in protecting the environment," (Berthon,
P. at all, 2010).
In 25 years:
In the middle term, we can now see the evolution of
maximizing internet protocol. One of example is VoIP (Voice over Internet
Protocol). "The evolution of this technology, an organization can gain a
great financial benefit over traditional telephony system," (Ismail,
M.N., 2010). Moreover, the evolution of the Internet Protocol (IP) is IPv6 comparison
to the IPv4; this will be improving a mechanism for assuring a secure and
confidential transfer bits or packages of the information among users and their
electrical devices. For instance transfer data packages from cars to palm
devices, from computing devices to mobile devices, etc. In this case, computing professional should
prepare to answer company necessities such as ‘Bring Your Own Device' (BYOD)
demands which help companies or organizations will have less infrastructure
investment. However, companies have to invest human resource capacity in order
to develop an open standard and cross plat form application whereas to be
compatible with the variety of the electronic devices. The computer professional
fields that need to be ready are programming, computing security expert,
business analysts, project management, help desk supports, and networking skills.
Moreover, during this period of time, the computing profession prediction will be
more focusing on the ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ (IaaS) and Software as a Service
(SaaS). The IaaS is a standardized infrastructure, highly
automated offering, where compute resources, complemented by storage and
networking capabilities are owned and hosted by a service provider and offered
to customer’s on-demand. According to Gartner, “customers are able to self-provision this infrastructure, using a
Web-based graphical user interface that serves as an IT operations management
console for the overall environment. API access to the infrastructure may also
be offered as an option”.
Gartner defines “SaaS as software that is owned, delivered and
managed remotely by one or more providers. The provider delivers software based
on one set of common code and data definitions that is consumed in a
one-to-many model by all contracted customers at any-time on a pay-for-use
basis or as a subscription based on use metrics”.
In 50 years:
In next 50 years, the computing future will be more complicated
to predict. In my own opinion, there will be more innovation on the integration
plat forms and open standard, artificial intelligent, archiving, business
intelligent, more analytical apps, and more focusing automation process. For
instant IBM current develop ‘Watson’, more technology and science on health
improvements, etc.
Alan Turing may consider as the father of the modern
Artificial Intelligence (AI).0 years. Dr. Turing started to ask himself. Could
machine think as human? Could machines
reply human questions? In order to answer at these questions, dr. Turing
proposed a test called ‘Turing Test’, in which is used to understand, if those machines
are intelligent or not and he concluded with this statement:
"We can only see a short distance ahead,
but, we can see plenty there that needs to be done", (Turing A.M., 1950)
"And he also predicted that by the year 2000
machines would have a 30% chance of passing a five minutes Turing Test",
(Brookshear, 2010:508)
Although, today Turing prediction still not respected
fully, however, in next 50 years these machines will able to think. There are
several research current runs to improve Watson from IBM. If I will be still alive
in 2063, I will be a witness of this success. Additionally, computing technology
is to greater extent and improves society life.
Several Conclusions:
As computing professionals, we have to be ready to introduce new
technology that is being developed, the technology that will be most probably
to be developed and also design new capable system to accommodate society
needs.
The future computing profession, it looks like the same as it is
today plus new additional field and functions. There would be no major changes
in this field of the profession. More computing profession becomes a good CEOs and
leadership because they had multidisciplinary background knowledge and
experiences.
There would be lot of developers whereas to develop the databases
or information systems databases will be not as difficult as it is today and it
maybe just using drag and drop tools. Or
the developer found the smarter application databases that can adjust and adapt
to any needs.
In the schools will be starting to use a computers, let say starts
from elementary to senior high in order to entertain their interactive learning
process and as part of the curriculum too. It would be possible also to
implement the on-line study for elementary schools. The youth under care and
travel can also continue their learning process from anywhere while accompany the
live sessions from classes.
Today, green environment campaign also triggers to have a
paperless at schools, offices, and etc. Therefore, in coming future from 10 to
50 years there would be no more paper found in the schools, shops, home, and
offices; all are in digitals. The trend is mobility. A lot palm devices will be
producing with interactive applications in which to use on time decision making
processes their business, connect from anywhere and anytime, and easy to
operate.
The cloud computing and internet communication are also helps a
lot for the new running enterprise business because this new entrepreneurs do
not need to invest in Information Technology Infrastructure. They can just
started with their own mobiles and connect to cloud computers in which all data
are being processed. Moreover, there will be lot of integrate system such IaaS
and SaaS, to accommodate the data centers, archiving system, cross plat forms,
open standard, workflow, and social networking capabilities.
Most importantly, the ethical computing and professional are still
in needs because it is dealing with the copyright, trade-marks, privacy, data
security, and freedom of speech.
Other aspects of the technology need to be constantly increased
the awareness’s are the cultures. The culture will be quite different because
people are use to connect, communicate, coordinate, and collaborate (4Cs) and
there will be no clear boarders are defined. Internet connection will be
everywhere. Anyone can interact or communicate with everyone-else without have a
precondition. The Video conferences can be available from palm to palm or
mobility (Cars, mobiles), from a fix phone terminal to other fix phone
terminals; from mobility to video conference tools, etc. This will be allow other
professional can be interact quick decision making process. For example, hearth
disease patient need to establish a quick communication with his or her Cardiology
Doctor while he or she is on trips in order to have a dr. prescription, Auto
drive cars, etc.
How about language in computing profession? I think English still a
preferable language for the information and technology and however there would
be an adaptation to the original mother tongue, acronyms, and slogans.
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