Top 10 Inventions Needed - Future Technology

This was a wish list that was originally intended to provide inspiration for inventors. First written in April of 1997, I thought it might be fun to follow-up each year and find out if anyone has been working on these ideas for future technology.
1. Future Technology - Free Energy
I want my energy bill to come only once, not every month. So be it solar or electro-magnetic, please make it personal and portable with batteries that keep going and going.
2. Future Technology - Transporter
What kind of technology is required to scramble a person's atoms and send them for regrouping in foreign lands all in the blink of an eye? Imagine, I could work in Tokyo and sleep in Paris. Beam me up.
3. Future Technology - Replicator Technology (Stuff for Free)
Every time I saw Captain Picard (Star Trek Next Generation) ordering his Earl Grey Tea or Councilor Troy getting a triple alien fudge dessert from one of those replicators on the Enterprise, it made me jealous. I imagine you could send the dirty dishes back to the void where they came from. BTW, a replicator is a device that uses transporter technology to dematerialize quantities of matter and then rematerialize that matter in another form.
4. Future Technology - Universal Communicator
Forget long distant bills and roaming charges (especially with me working in Tokyo and sleeping in Paris). I want a very small device that lets me talk and see anyone, anywhere and anytime. All for the price of the device and please throw in the ability for universal translation for a modest surcharge.
5. Future Technology - The Cure

6. Future Technology - Fountain of Youth
As a woman I consider this as a no-brainer desire for future technology. The "Fountain of Youth" was a legendary spring that renders anyone who drinks of its waters permanently young. What is the real future technology that will extend our lives and keep us looking youthful without surgery?
7. Future Technology - Protective Force Field
8. Future Technology - Flying Cars
9. Future Technology - The Battery Operated Butler Did It
10. Future Technology - The Time Machine

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Future of Information Technology

Information technology is a highly important aspect today. Having the ability to transfer data, store data and keep it safe is crucial in many ways. Without information technology many medical facilities and corporations would find it difficult to keep information stored securely.

communication that far outreaches what a traditional telephone could ever do. Of course the human brain is far more advanced than a typical home computer.
Our brains allow us to keep track of things as well and to remember faces and names, find entertainment, love others and enjoy the simpler things in life.
The future of information technology may very well involve using computers to enhance the human brain. Common computers are expected to possess the same or nearly the same capabilities as the human brain in the future.
In another twenty five years or so it may be very likely that you will be able to have a computer that will possess the ability to feel emotions and have spiritual experiences. Of course this prediction will be met with skepticism as all others have been in the past.
The first gasoline powered vehicle was met with much scrutiny as was the first airplane. Society as a whole does not generally accept things that it can not understand or control. Believing that scientific technology can produce a computer that is capable of human emotion is so far-fetched that many simply will have to see it to believe it.

It does stand to reason however, that if developments have come as far as they have today, then having a better and more efficient information technology in the future is virtually a given.
More advanced computers that can help those with memory loss problems or virtually run your entire brain may seem too far in sci-fi land to believe but stranger things have happened.
Medical science has come a long way since the turn of the twentieth century. Many things have come into play that were never believed to be possible. The world may not ever see a computer that will retain memory of an individual’s life, but then again it may.
The computers in question will have the ability to hold images, videos and anything else that the memory retains within the human brain. Information will be kept forever, which will make it much easier to conduct personal and professional business.

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Focus Area of IT in Tele-Center

A Tele-center is a work location usually in a different area than the organization's main office that provides convenient access to work with equipments that people don't have at home. Tele-center are established with a view to provide easy access to work with equipment that people in rural areas do not have at home.
The approach to Tele-center was instigated in order to shrink the Digital Divide that evolved from the situation in which substantial number of citizen in the developing country lack to obtain the rights of developmental progress. In general, through the concept of Tele-center, it is aimed to provide the deficit community with the ease of modern Information technological services such as internet, email, fax, photocopy, scan etc in order to help them reach the realm of development.
Establishment of Tele-center helps to reduce the Information and knowledge poverty, consequent trivial boundary relation in developmental effort to showcase major changes in modern Information and Communication sector. At present, it is strongly felt that with the establishment of Tele-center, developmental methodology based on Information and Communication technology should also go hand in hand
Objective:
• To maximize the use of ICT to meet the goal of Development
• Providing internet access for rural community
• Develop a knowledge based society
• Provide information related to agriculture production, tele-medicine
• Trace the route for study and employment opportunity
Services provided by Tele-center:
• General telephone service for receiving incoming calls and transferring outgoing call.
• Internet and email service
• Formatting documents in word, spreadsheet, database and creating pamphlets
• Surfing the internet for study, business and entertainment
• Graphic designing and Desktop publishing
• Promote computer usage
• Conducting basic computer skill development training programs
• Video conferencing
Tele-centers established and managed by NITC :
KrishnaChowk, Chitwan
Madhesa, Sunsari
MilanChowk, Parbat
Sankhu, Kathmandu
Devighat, Nuwakot
Kowang, Mustang
Malangwa, Sarlahi

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Focus Area of IT in- e-Government

The world is rapidly transforming into one society driven by an outstanding increase in the amount of communication between civilizations. It has really become information driven society, in which information and communications technologies are playing important and indispensable roles. Keeping up with the 21 st century, governments around the world are embracing Information Technology (IT). In every region of the globe-from developing countries to industrialized ones - central and local governments are putting critical information online, automating bulky processes and interacting electronically with their citizens.
The arrival of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) has significantly enhanced our capabilities to collect, process, and distribute information. Almost all developing countries regard ICTs as an important factor while preparing their national development plans. One area has received outstanding attention is the use of ICT in the quest of good governance, usually termed e-governance.
E-governance is about the use of (ICTs) to raise the quality of services governments deliver to citizens and businesses. Most governments in the developed world have moved towards some form of implementation of IT to deliver services to the citizens as well as better govern their internal programs. Today wide ranges of E-governance projects are being implemented at different parts of the country including the projects designed to reduce digital divide in rural areas that have been ignored in the past.
E-governance is a radical concept that covers wide range of IT enabled reforms. They are as follows.
• Prioritize the governments need to use IT and the Internet to provide services between government agencies, citizens, and business.
• Improve the democratic values of the government process and administrations through more transparency, accountability, and involvement.
• Make the internal operation of public administrations more efficient.
• Change the mindset of the administration for successful implementation of e-governance.
• Create awareness of IT in the top bureaucracy.
• Expand access of IT to the common people through establishment of self sustaining Tele-center in rural part of the country.
NITC with support from Korean IT Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA) and HLCIT has already drafted national egovernance master plan that:
• Defines a practical vision for National E-governance.
• Designs appropriate architectures.
• Creates Infrastructure in compliance with the architectures.
• Recommends E-governance Framework.
• Defines effective policies, standards and procedures for IT governance and decision making (e.g. IT security Policy, cyber rules and regulation etc).
• Recommends an organizational structure for supporting E-governance.
• Provides an implementation plan with schedule and budget.
• Maps existing IT enabled government services and e-readiness.
• Creates awareness for recognition of IT as a productive tool of learning and good governance at all levels of government.

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Government Integrated Data Center

The success of e-governance initiatives depends a great deal on sound ICT infrastructure. Therefore, due emphasis ought to be given on the development of e-government infrastructure in the country. Infrastructure needs to be built up for all aspects of e-governance, be it delivery of services by government or access of services by citizens or even for backend automation at government departments. Also, the government should ensure a coordinated development of infrastructure in various parts of the nation to avoid another divide between the ICT enabled and the non-enabled.
A data center is a centralized location for the storage, management, processing and exchange of data that exists within a specific enterprise or a specialized facility.
In general, data centers can be broken down into three types- Internet Data center (IDC), Storage area network (SAN) and Enterprise data center(EDC).
An Internet data center (IDC) is a facility that provides data and Internet services for other companies
A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a network of interconnected storage devices and data servers usually located within an enterprise data center or as an off-site facility offering leased storage space.
An Enterprise data center (EDC) is the central processing facility for an enterprise’s computer network
Presently we are on first phase of Data Center, an Internet data center (IDC).
Importance of GIDC
In the era of e-governance, government is expected to deliver its services to the citizens on 24*7 basis. To achieve this, the government has to set up a sound and stable infrastructure operational round the clock. Internet Data Centre is a facility which provides extremely reliable and secure infrastructure for running Internet operations on a 24*7 basis. It shall not at all be cost effective if each department starts setting up its own data centre as running a high class Internet Data Centre needs a lot of recurring resources. It is, therefore, suggested that the government may set up a high grade Data Centre at a National level to be used by all entities of the government. All departments should, in turn, establish high speed connectivity with the data centre so that they can manage their applications from their own premises in a secured manner.

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IT Service Continuity Management

IT Service Continuity management covers the processes by which plans are put in place and managed to ensure that IT Services can recover and continue should a serious incident occur. It is not just about reactive measures, but also about proactive measures - reducing the risk of a disaster in the first instance.
Continuity management is regarded by the application owners as the recovery of the IT infrastructure used to deliver IT Services, but as of 2009[update] many businesses practice the much further-reaching process of Business Continuity Planning (BCP), to ensure that the whole end-to-end business process can continue should a serious incident occur (at primary support level).
Continuity management involves the following basic steps:
• Prioritising the activities to be recovered by conducting a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Performing a Risk Assessment (aka risk analysis) for each of the IT Services to identify the assets, threats, vulnerabilities and countermeasures for each service.
• Evaluating the options for recovery
• Producing the Contingency Plan
• Testing, reviewing, and revising the plan on a regular basis
Availability Management
Availability Management targets allowing organisations to sustain the IT service-availability to support the business at a justifiable cost. The high-level activities are Realise Availability Requirements, Compile Availability Plan, Monitor Availability, and Monitor Maintenance Obligations.
Availability Management addresses the ability of an IT component to perform at an agreed level over a period of time.
• Reliability: Ability of an IT component to perform at an agreed level at described conditions.
• Maintainability: The ability of an IT component to remain in, or be restored to an operational state.
• Serviceability: The ability for an external supplier to maintain the availability of component or function under a third-party contract.
• Resilience: A measure of freedom from operational failure and a method of keeping services reliable. One popular method of resilience is redundancy.
• Security: A service may have associated data. Security refers to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of that data. Availability gives a clear overview of the end-to-end availability of the system.

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Criticisms of ITILCriticisms of ITIL

ITIL has been criticized on several fronts, including:
• The books are not affordable for non-commercial users
• Accusations that many ITIL advocates think ITIL is "a holistic, all-encompassing framework for IT governance";
• Accusations that proponents of ITIL indoctrinate the methodology with 'religious zeal' at the expense of pragmatism.
• Implementation and credentialing requires specific training
• Debate over ITIL falling under or ITSM frameworks
• ITIL training and certification costs are exorbitant
As Jan van Bon (author and editor of many IT Service Management publications) notes,
There is confusion about ITIL, stemming from misunderstandings about its nature. ITIL is, as the OGC states, a set of best practices. The OGC doesn't claim that ITIL's best practices describe pure processes. The OGC also doesn't claim that ITIL is a framework, designed as one coherent model. That is what most of its users make of it, probably because they have such a great need for such a model...
CIO Magazine columnist Dean Meyer has also presented some cautionary views of ITIL, including five pitfalls such as "becoming a slave to outdated definitions" and "Letting ITIL become religion." As he notes, "...it doesn't describe the complete range of processes needed to be world class. It's focused on ... managing ongoing services."
Van Herwaarden and Grift see the quality of the library's volumes as uneven. They note: “the consistency that characterized the service support processes ... is largely missing in the service delivery books."
In a 2004 survey designed by Noel Bruton (author of "How to Manage the IT Helpdesk" and "Managing the IT Services Process"), organizations adopting ITIL were asked to relate their actual experiences in having implemented ITIL. Seventy-seven percent of survey respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that "ITIL does not have all the answers". ITIL exponents accept this, citing ITIL's stated intention to be non-prescriptive, expecting organizations to engage ITIL processes with existing process models. Bruton notes that the claim to non-prescriptiveness must be, at best, one of scale rather than absolute intention, for the very description of a certain set of processes is in itself a form of prescription.

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