Well, even today there are people who don't have a mobile phone, a social media profile or any digital device, how outrageous! How can this be? Well, it's okay, let's not be surprised; before the advent of the Internet and all its paraphernalia, life was normal, that is, we worked, made friends, played Monopoly and Parcheesi, and we also went to the movies, read the press, enjoyed enriching readings of printed books and published articles, not on blogs, but in newspapers; there was life before the advent of the Internet.
Fortunately, society evolves. There are extraordinary people with privileged minds who are dedicated to researching and discovering new ways and means of doing things and living, and although I repeat myself, to evolving. And evolution , in our current Knowledge and Information Society, is called: Internet and digital skills and their associated Apps, their Social Networks, their WhatsApp and their email and their Zoom and their cloud and, in short: IoT.
Internet today: The essential digital skills and services
The Internet of Things (IoT) and other things
It is a concept coined in the English language; this is one of the advantages of this technological tsunami, you learn to use technology and in the same package you learn English, since the technological language is English; the IoT refers to the internet connection of all kinds of "things" , read digital devices, for example: the company Henkel, has macedonia phone data developed an intelligent digital device that allows "telling" the dishwasher how much detergent it needs for the washing program.
But let's go back to our daily lives, where the dose of detergent is deposited by our human hand.
An application as well known as Gmail , Google's email service, is also a great unknown. The multifunctionality of this application is suitable for everyone; Gmail itself offers, in addition to the classic sending of emails, among other features and mentioning some at random; the possibility of scheduling the sending of our messages, templates and other personalized functions, various email headings; and if this were not enough, Gmail is a filing system, let's say to be brief that it is very good and intuitive. Within Google's applications, we access a virtual environment in constant evolution. Among these applications, Drive stands out, the Google cloud where we can store files, share documents, create spreadsheets or text documents, among other things.
The cloud , in this case, our cloud, is the internet space that Google offers us free of charge, it is on Google servers, which are data centers, located in Europe, North America, South America and Asia, in this link you will find more information about Google and its things: Google Datacenters.
There are some features that make Gmail and Drive nice, and that is that their use and enjoyment are free (Google gives away the first 15GB if we need more, we must pay a monthly or annual fee), and that they can be accessed from any device or digital thing, you can create one or several accounts through this link: Improve your productivity with Gmail.
The management of communications in the company and in our personal lives, as well as the organization and classification of the information generated in both areas, have been transformed by Information and Communication Technologies, better known by their acronym ICTs. Digital devices or things, called “pens”, “drives” or more colloquially “pincho”, allow documents and digitalized information to be loaded onto them, to be transported comfortably from one place to another, containing detailed reports of hundreds of pages with interesting images and enriching graphics.
In addition to Google, there are other companies that offer their information storage and management services, using the technology called Cloud Computing, or in other words, Cloud Computing technology, which is the name given to the technology that allows us to “upload” information, using our digital device, to an Internet space, called the cloud.