At Volkswagen scandal software were used for fraudulent purposes. That was enough to someone to discuss the potential adverse tech industry. From cats to basketball shoes, which is why instead we have more and more need
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A few days ago I came across two articles that spoke of ‘ software industry . One maintained that the global market for technologies associated IoT (“Internet of Things”) was intended to more than triple by 2020 to reach a total of 7.1 trillion (7.1 million million). The other pointed to the recent theft of computerized personal data relating to 15 million accounts from a major telecommunications company.
In the wake of the scandal of diesel engine emissions Volkswagen in which software and handling plants ( the so-called “defeat devices”) have been used for fraudulent purposes, discuss some of the alleged potential negative software . The long and growing list of plagues digital infecting modern society, after cyberbullying and the theft of electronic identities are supplemented by the counterfeiting of emission controls. In fact, this aspect represents only a tiny fraction of the whole phenomenon.
The real question is how far the software has taken a role in our lives and has become an integral part of the world economy.
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In today’s economics applications software is the engine behind everything from larger companies to smartphones everyday. He has revolutionized the field of tourism. Our relations with the banks have undergone a fundamental change since the market is dominated by digital channels: bank branches and travel agencies road are becoming a thing of the past – just as happened with the old rotary dial phones and floppy disk drive. Most of us buy airline tickets online, or run-line payment by credit card and, increasingly, are using the online channel to even order food.
The software provides small companies the opportunity to grow faster. Accelerate processes and eliminate trade barriers. It facilitates automation. It reduces human error. Generate data aims to extract and seek to stimulate innovation and improve functionality. Paves the way for completely new business models.
Companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, SAP, Uber, Oracle, Airbnb, Amazon, IBM, Salesforce.com, Twitter, Yahoo, eBay and California – to name only some – would not be what they are without the software. By themselves, these 14 companies employ more than one million people and have a total turnover in excess of GDP in Austria.
‘ impact of the software industry automotive is a very apt example. The new electronic board not only serves to provide precise directions, but also makes the machine work better. There is a reason why the car is no longer mounted the carburetor, based on a mechanical principle: a fuel injection system controlled by the software performs much better in fact the same function, by adjusting the air / fuel mixture with a high degree of precision to adapt it to the machine speed, engine load, atmospheric conditions and the preferences of the driver. This system can be easily tuned to optimize the operation of the engine based on the efficiency of consumption, the power or, of course, to emissions.
It was this high level of precision and flexibility to allow some characters of the Volkswagen to flout the system. But it is also what makes so many new technologies more affordable in terms of cost-performance, more efficient in terms of resource consumption and infinitely more powerful than the previous mechanical and analog technologies.
For any imaginable process, the software provides a number of answers nuanced and modulated to a complex range of input – goal that mechanical craftsmen of the past would not have even dreamed. Right now, all over the world, many of the brightest minds are intent to apply the infinite adaptability of logic circuits to every problem imaginable. Would you like to be able to predict more reliably any rainfall? Right now there are certainly hundreds of people who are writing code to do just that. Would you like to design a shoe more powerful to play basketball? For this specific purpose have already been written sophisticated CAD programs. Want to find the cat disappeared from home? There is a special program for that too.
The modern equivalents of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell will no longer searches for machine shops but in the hackathon , the traditional gatherings of geeks. This does not necessarily mean that mechanical engineering is an art that is disappearing, but rather means that engineers are now accustomed to use the software to develop projects and draw structures and mechanisms controlled by software. Over a hundred years ago began the era of electromechanical control systems at the expense of purely mechanical systems. Now the norm are the systems to digital control. It was once required an entire building with no windows to contain all distribution frames of a typical telephone exchange, while now it takes one or two boxes of modest size.
The software is an unstoppable force that is transforming the face of our cities and the way we communicate and travel. It stimulates economic growth, improves the functioning of the state apparatus and promotes better health care. It is everywhere – with a massive presence. For the control systems of a device obviously complex as the F-22 Raptor is needed 8 million lines of code . For the Chevrolet Volt that, despite being a nice car, it seems a little less complex, and about 411 million dollars cheaper than the F-22, will serve as many as 10 million. Although history has shown that it can develop both hunting electric cars without writing any code, it is quite clear that neither of these two extraordinary vehicles would be able to accomplish half of his duties if he could count on innovative software.
Today, the software helps to promote innovation in many contexts – from learning of reading within the school, decisions on crops planting in agriculture, looking for investors and employees in business, health care within the family – to name a few.
At the birth of each new technology, there will always be those who will try malicious to bend it to their destructive purposes or fraudulent. By the same logic, however, it is clear that we can not blame Gutenberg for all the junk mail we receive, nor can we cross the Wright brothers for all the abstruse rules on baggage allowance tax by low-cost airlines.
It goes without saying that we have every reason to feel cheated by the revelations emerged on Volkswagen, the result of erroneous judgment of a group of VW employees. Nevertheless, the software will continue to make our world a better and more livable.
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