Envisioning emerging technologies

A historical look at the social effects of automation in factories and offices, which led to many job losses. The clip puts the commercial and industrial use of computers into a real life social context. It could lead to discussion of more recent developments and their social impact. For example, what effects has the internet had on retail, banking and media industries?

This infographic, shows ecommerce around the world, and what, where and just how much people are buying online. The data is based on a 2010 Nielsen survey of more than 27,000 Internet users from North America, South America, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.

Online Shopping is growing, both in the US and internationally. However, there are pretty notable differences in the ways that people engage the online marketplace, based on such factors as, age, race and gender (among others). This graphic takes a look at who is shopping online, it US data however...please remember to triangulate stats to check for accuracy before using them in your e-book and please remember to reference accurately and complete your bibliography for every item.

A range of infographics to explore...get some figures into those exploratory assignments will you please people!

PayPal and its parent company eBay - two infographics to show how much business they expect from mobile shoppers this Christmas season. eBay predicts to see nearly $5 billion in mobile gross merchandise volume (GMV), while PayPal expects to see more than $3.5 billion dollars in mobile payment volume, in 2011.

With 59% of us banking online and given the steady stream of news about security breaches exposing millions of account numbers and personal info, here's an infographic on the importance of secure online banking. According to the results of a 2011 JustAskGemalto.com poll, 48% of consumers do not know the steps their bank may or may not have taken to keep them secure while banking online.

I have mentioned Amazon many different times and this article is about its ecommerce strengths.

There are alternative to Paypal!- AlertPay is an account-based payment processor allowing just about anyone with an email address to securely send and receive money with their credit card or bank account. Shop or send money online to anyone in over 190 countries safely and easily without sharing your personal information.

There are alternatives to Paypal-Skrill (Moneybookers) is the cheaper way to send and receive money worldwide. Secure and convenient online payments. More than 22.3 million customers and 117 000 merchants.

Give As You Live suggests that some of the money now spent on buying stuff online could go to charitable causes - very easily The "Give As You Live" campaign is trying to get people to give some of the money now spent on internet shopping to help charitable causes - the idea being that every time someone shops online, a percentage of the spend can be donated to any UK charity of their choice.

An infographic on The History of Online Shopping is an interesting one, and much longer than you might think. Beginning in the early days of the modern computer and only allowing simple B2B transactions it has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry that all of us use everyday… …but where did it all begin?