Makerere College
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ICT and mobile phones
11th August 2009
Speaker: Vincent Kiiza
Technology & Science are a ‘must know’ thing. Even though the human brain is more flexible than any machine, it’s difficult for a person living in the twenty-first century to do without mobile phones and computers.
Today’s mobile phones are more than just phones: they can send multimedia information {video clips, photos, music} to almost any corner of the world, store personal information, keep a schedule and more. A phone is a ‘pocket partner’ – we feel lost and disconnected when we lose our phone. Computers began as machines for calculations but are used for much more now: the Internet, video-conferencing, email and more.
ICT has disadvantages: emissions of electromagnetic waves harmful to human health, continuous use of computers can cause body stiffness due to lack of body movement {physical exercise} and psychologically, using a computer reduces a person’s ability to interact with colleagues socially {makes one self contained}.
We asked:
- Tell us more about the telephone infrastructure.
- How do the packets of the wireless device work?
- Do mobile phone masts affect our health?
- How does the mobile phone receive its signal?
- How do mobile phone signals interact with other electromagnetic signals? What is the danger if that happens?
- Does the way phones get signals affect our health?
