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NEW–The most up-to-date coverage—Emphasizes big ideas, broad trends, and the human aspects of technology.

~Gives students a text that has been rewritten to reflect the developments in information technology, pedagogical methods, and reader and reviewer feedback.

NEW–New and redesigned Screen Tests—Shows what it’s like to use a particular software package to achieve a specific goal.

~Provides students with a glimpse of programs they might not otherwise experience; the text’s emphasis on emerging technologies familiarizes students with what they may encounter in the future.

NEW—New and redesigned How it Works boxes—Now clearer and more visually interesting.

~Give students pictures and words to make complex topics easy to understand.

NEW–Working Wisdom boxes—Formerly ‘Rules of Thumb’ boxes; these now contain relevant and intriguing tips.

~Helps students produce better results and steer clear of trouble.

NEW—Inventing the Future boxes.

~Provides students with futuristic perspectives at the end of each chapter.

NEW–Crosscurrents articles.

~Gives students some of the best contemporary, short essays focusing on our complex relationship with technology, explaining existing projects in great detail.

NEW—ACM Guidelines—Includes this most widely-known code of conduct for computer professionals.

~Gives students a text with detailed annotations that link specific tenants to related ethics material throughout the text.

Total text, Web, and CD integration.

~Presents students with a graphic that guides them to the resources available in the book, on the student CD, and on the Companion Website for each chapter.

Reorganized and streamlined content throughout–Emphasizes networks; the evolving Internet; security; and other important topics.

~Takes into consideration the needs of todays students, state-of-the-art advances in the field, emerging and experimental hardware technologies, software tools, and much more.

Revised and expanded opening chapter on the basics–Features coverage on file management; e-mail; Internet security; and an orientation to all three components of Computer Confluence with time-saving tips.

~Provides an introduction to students who have little or no experience with PCs and the Internet.

Student CD-ROM–Significantly updated and enhanced for the 7th edition. FREE with every copy of the student textbook, it reinforces the material in the text via state-of-the-art 3-D animations, videos, quizzes, review exercises, and key terms.

~Gives students provocative G4TechTV video clips and book-specific Train & Assess IT content.

Website: www.computerconfluence.com  Allows visits to the 7^th edition website for up-to-the-minute information, Internet exercises, updates, and links. Over 100 Web icons are integrated throughout the textbook.

~Shows students where they can access additional information.

OneKey: www.prenhall.com/onekey  Gives the best teaching and learning resources all in one place.

~Gives students immediate access to course materials, conveniently organized by textbook chapter to reinforce and apply what they’ve learned in class.

Instructor Resources–Includes Instructor’s Manual in Word and PDF formats, solutions to all questions and exercises from the book and website, PowerPoint slide presentations for each chapter, computer concepts animations, G4TechTV videos, and an image library of all figures from the text.

~Gives instructors a foundation for course, assignment, and exam preparation.

Table of Contents

Basics.

I. APPROACHING COMPUTERS.

Chapter 1. Computer Currents and Internet Waves: The Long View.

Chapter 2. Hardware Basics: Inside the Box.

Chapter 3. Hardware Basics: Peripherals.

Chapter 4. Software Basics: The Ghost in the Machine.

II. USING SOFTWARE.

Chapter 5. Basic Productivity Applications.

Chapter 6. Graphics, Digital Media, and Multimedia.

Chapter 7. Database Applications and Implications.

III. EXPLORING WITH COMPUTERS: NETWORKING AND THE INTERNET.

Chapter 8. Networking and Telecommunication.

Chapter 9. Inside the Internet and the World Wide Web.

IV. LIVING WITH COMPUTERS: ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS.

Chapter 10. Computer Security and Risks.

Chapter 11. Computers at Work, School, and Home.

V. MANAGING COMPUTERS: INFORMATION SYSTEMS AT WORK.

Chapter 12. Information Systems in Business.

Chapter 13. Electronic Commerce and E-Business.

VI. MASTERING COMPUTERS.

Chapter 14. Is Artificial Intelligence Real?

Appendix: Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

Glossary.

Credits.

Index.

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• Digital Planet: Tomorrow's Technology and You, Complete, 10/E
  Beekman & Beekman
  ©2012  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 672 pp  |  Instock
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  For introductory courses in computer concepts often including instruction in Microsoft Office.

   

  Explores the promises and challenges of information technology, along with its effect on businesses, people, society, and the future.

   

  Digital Planet: Tomorrow’s Technology and You explores information technology on three levels:

  ·    Explanations: Clearly explains what a computer is and what it can (and can’t) do; it clearly explains the basics of information technology, from multimedia PCs to the Internet and beyond.

  ·    Applications: Illustrates how computers and networks are–and will be–used as practical tools to solve a wide variety of problems.

  ·    Implications: Puts technology in a human context, illustrating how digital devices and networks affect our lives, our world, and our future.

   

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• Tomorrow's Technology and You, Complete, 8/E
  Beekman & Quinn
  ©2008  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 672 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132297205  |  ISBN-13: 9780132297202
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  For introductory courses in computer concepts often including instruction in Microsoft Office.

   

  Explores the promises and challenges of information technology, along with its effect on businesses, people, society, and the future.

   

  Tomorrow’s Technology and You explores information technology on three levels:

  • Explanations: Clearly explains what a computer is and what it can (and can’t) do; it clearly explains the basics of information technology, from multimedia PCs to the Internet and beyond.
  • Applications: Illustrates how computers and networks are–and will be–used as practical tools to solve a wide variety of problems.
  • Implications: Puts technology in a human context, illustrating how digital devices and networks affect our lives, our world, and our future.

  Previous Edition: Computer Confluence: Tomorrow’s Technology and You, Seventh Edition

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• Tomorrow's Technology and You, Complete, 9/E
  Beekman & Beekman
  ©2010  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 672 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0135045045  |  ISBN-13: 9780135045046
  Suggested retail price: $145.33  Net price: $109.00  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  For introductory courses in computer concepts often including instruction in Microsoft Office.

   

  Explores the promises and challenges of information technology, along with its effect on businesses, people, society, and the future.

   

  Tomorrow’s Technology and You explores information technology on three levels:

  ·    Explanations: Clearly explains what a computer is and what it can (and can’t) do; it clearly explains the basics of information technology, from multimedia PCs to the Internet and beyond.

  ·    Applications: Illustrates how computers and networks are—and will be—used as practical tools to solve a wide variety of problems.

  ·    Implications: Puts technology in a human context, illustrating how digital devices and networks affect our lives, our world, and our future.

   

  Previous Editions:

  Tomorrow's Technology and You, Eigth Edition

  Computer Confluence: Tomorrow’s Technology and You, Seventh Edition

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Computer Confluence: Tomorrow's Technology and You, Complete

Book Tour | Overview | New to this Edition | Sample Chapter Instructor Resources | Student Resources | Online Course Content Train & Assess IT | About the Authors | Table of Contents

Author Bios

George Beekman is the author of more than 20 books and 100 articles and reviews on computers, information technology, and multimedia. He has taught courses in multimedia, computer literacy and computer ethics at Oregon State University for more than two decades.

Michael J. Quinn is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. He is the author of more than 70 publications, including five books on subjects ranging from computer ethics to parallel computing.

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When powerful forces come together, change is inevitable. Today we’re standing at the confluence of three powerful and rapidly evolving technological forces: computers, communication networks, and electronic entertainment. The computer’s digital technology is showing up in everything from telephones to televisions, and the lines that separate these machines are eroding. This digital convergence is rapidly — and radically- altering the world’s economic landscape. Start-up companies and industries are emerging to ride the waves of change. Some thrive; others dive into oblivion. Meanwhile, older organizations reorganize, regroup, and redefine themselves to keep from being washed away.

What must we understand about information technology to successfully navigate the water of change that carry us into the future? Computer Confluence: Tomorrow’s Technology and You is designed to aid travelers on their journey into that future.

Computer Confluence presents computers and information technology on three levels:

• Explanations: Computer Confluence clearly explains what a computer is and what it can (and can’t) do; it clearly explains the basics of information technology, from multimedia PCs to the Internet and beyond.
•  Applications: Computer Confluence illustrates how computers and networks are- and will be — used as practical tools to solve a wide variety of problems.
• Implication: Computer Confluence puts computers in a human context, illustrating how information technology affects our lives, our world, and our future.

 Computer Confluence: Tomorrow’s Technology and You goes beyond simply describing the latest gadgets and explains many of the benefits we derive (and risks) we tolerate when we incorporate information technology into our lives.

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