What are the greatest differences that you see between the way youand your friends use information and communication technology (ICT), and the way your parents and their friends use ICT?
a. If you were asked to design a “simple to use and easy to operate plain old cell phone,” what would you consider as your target market, you or your grandparents? Why?
b.If you were launching a new social networking site that integrated real-time digital communications of all forms—verbal, written, music, video—into unitary communication packages,what would be your target market? How would you plan to make enough money to support your service?
c. A structured document that helps a start-up business understand what its goals are, how it plans to be successful, and where it expects its money to come from is called a “business plan.” Write a business plan for a proposed firm based on the social networking site mentioned in “b.”
d.If you do successfully launch the site mentioned in “b,” and it becomes wildly successful and copied, what would you expect the impacts to be on written English? Do those impacts matter and, if so, is it your responsibility to think about them?