QUESTION: what was it then without ict brainly?
ANSWER:
Just for a moment imagine a world without information and communication technology. What would your life be like without ICT? You would have no mobile phone, no MP3 player, no television, no internet for email and web browsing, no computer games – no computers at all! All these you could probably live without, even if you were miserable and bored – but think also about all the ICT in use around us – we rely on ICT to provide us with power for lighting and transport and as a way of managing car engines, and keeping airlines, buses and trains running to time without which our life would, as we know it, be impossible.
There are places and people in the world today that manage quite well without all the information and communication technology that we take for granted but theywould find it impossible to run many aspects of their lives the way we do. Our modern societies would not be as pleasant and may not survive as we know it without ICT.
ICT is all around us, in our homes, in our schools and businesses and in the infrastructure that allows our society to work and function.
A computer is a programmable machine that follows a set of instructions. Early computers were mechanical with levers and cogs such as Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine which was an automated, mechanical calculator, large enough to fill a small room! Babbage’s Analytical Engine was designed to be a general purpose computer but was never built, some believe, because the technology of the day was either
