The application of information technology includes computer hardware and software, network and communication technology, application software development tools, etc. Since the popularization of computers and the Internet, people have increasingly used computers to produce, process, exchange and disseminate various forms of information (such as books, business documents, newspapers, records, movies, TV programs, sounds, graphics, images, etc.). ).
Information technology in a broad sense refers to the sum of various methods, tools and skills that can fully utilize and expand the functions of human information organs. This definition emphasizes the philosophical exposition of the relationship between information technology and human nature.
In Chinese, information technology refers to the sum of various technologies for collecting, transmitting, storing, processing and expressing information. This definition emphasizes people's general understanding of the functions and processes of information technology.
In a narrow sense, information technology refers to the sum of technologies that use computers, networks, radio, television and other hardware devices, software tools and scientific methods to acquire, process, store, transmit and use various information such as words, images and sounds. This definition emphasizes the modernization and high-tech content of information technology.
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Information technology has the general feature of technology-technicality. Specific performance is: scientific methods, advanced tools and equipment, skilled skills, rich experience, rapid action process, efficient functions and so on.
Information technology is different from other technologies-information. Specifically, the service subject of information technology is information, and its core function is to improve the efficiency and benefit of information processing and utilization. The nature of information determines that information technology also has the characteristics of universality, objectivity, relativity, dynamics, enjoyment and transformation.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-information technology