[solved] – Question 93296

Experts predict that notebook computers will have 10 times the power of a current personal computer, with a touch sensitive colour screen that one can write on or draw with a stylus, or type on when a program displays a keyboard. Each will have a small, compact, rewritable, removable CD‐ROM that can store the equivalent of a set of encyclopaedias. In addition, the computers will have voice‐recognition capabilities, include the ability to record sound and give voice response to questions. The computers will be able to carry on a dialogue by voice, graphics, typed words and displayed video graphics. Thus, affordable computers will be about the size of a thick pad of letter paper and just as portable and convenient, but with the intelligence of a computer and the multimedia capabilities of a television set.
Develop an analysis of the impacts (at least such developments would have on one of these areas: university education, corporate sales and marketing, manufacturing, or management consulting.

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