It mainly uses application of computer science and communication technology to design, develop, install and implement information systems and application software. It is also often called information and communication technology. It mainly includes sensing technology, computer and intelligence technology, communication technology and control technology.
Information technology is a purposeful combination of experience, knowledge and skills accumulated by human beings in the process of understanding and transforming nature in production struggles and scientific experiments, as well as labor materials embodying these experiences, knowledge and skills.
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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 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, sharing and transformation.
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