Low cost of Technologies and appliances

Economical driving force of The Future of Secondary Education in 2020

Description

The decline in cost of technologies and appliances is an event that we have all realized the last couple of years; from Desktop Pc’s and Internet to mobile phones and GPS. Almost everyone can afford to have all these kind of technologies. A recent study of cost and performance trends for desktop computers from the major manufacturers indicates that. At the graph below you can see the continuous decline in prices of Desktop PCs, while the performance in GHz increases at the same time.

Internet prices also decrease over the years-especially by using wireless access- and the same happens for several technologies and services. This allows technology to enter new industries and areas that hadn’t been entered before.

Enablers

1. Economic development of countries 2. Globalization 3. Large investments in research

Inhibitors

1. Economic instability

2. Increase of Taxes

Paradigms

As the cost of technology decreases over the years, people will start thinking about creating and using massively, inexpensive pieces of technology in several areas . One recent example is the $100 laptop project. The $100 Laptop is a proposed inexpensive laptop computer intended to be distributed to children around the world, especially to those in developing countries, to provide them with access to knowledge and modern forms of education.

Reference

http://www.computereconomics.com/page.cfm?name=desktop2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child