A4 - Emerging Technologies

Question 1

Artificial intelligence (at home)

Answer 1

• Automated Vacuum cleaners gives us more leisure time
• self driving cars makes the road safer

Question 2

Biometrics (At home)

Answer 2

Let us securely log into our tablet and smartphones through our thumb print

Question 3

Virtual reality (At home)

Answer 3

new exciting gaming opportunities

Question 4

Artificial intelligence (at work)

Answer 4

used in business to help forecast sales and make accurate decisions

Question 5

Biometrics (At work)

Answer 5

increasing security at airports through facial recognition at passport checks

Question 6

Robots (At work)

Answer 6

performing dangerous jobs without risk to life

Question 7

Virtual reality

Answer 7

allowing business to test products under development in a virtual environment

Question 8

Advantage of biometrics

Answer 8

• Biometric is unique (1) can’t be copied/passed on to other people/ID cards that can be passed on to other users/stolen (1)
• Biometric is part of the person’s physical presence (1) no need to carry an ID card/ID cards can be lost/damaged (1)

Question 9

Factors of emerging technologies - Cost

Answer 9

Cost- Need to look at all costs / carry out a cost benefit analysis to establish whether this is a good use of resources.

Question 10

Emerging technology

Answer 10

Emerging technologies can be hardware, software based or combination and changing the wat we live our personal life and the way we do business

Question 11

Factors of emerging technology - Compatibility

Answer 11

Compatibility: Need to ensure that the emerging technology is compatible across different platforms. This includes hardware, operating systems and other application software, communication software, security software.

Question 12

Factors of emerging technology - security

Answer 12

Security - Must ensure that the emerging technology does not impact on the security of current systems

Question 13

Factors of emerging technology - Implementation

Answer 13

Does the technology need all/some system(s) to be closed down when installing, if so will need to carefully consider when the installation is going to take place

Question 14

internet of things

Answer 14

the interconnection via the internet of computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data.

Question 15

IOT advantage

Answer 15

Productivity–A lot of emerging technologies in business are designed around making tasks quicker & easier to complete to save the business money. For example, contactless payment methods have made it quicker to complete a sale at the till.

Reduced Errors–Many of these devices also aim to reduce human error. IoT devices could be used for tracking temperature in a warehouse to spot if it was accidentally set too high for example.