Information Technology (IT)
The use of computers and other electronic means to process and distribute information. Information can be transferred between computers using cables, satellite links, or telephone lines. Networks of connected computers can be used to send *e-mail or to interrogate *databases, using .such systems as *Viewdata and *Teletext. These systems also enable *electronic transfer of funds to be made between banks, as well as telebanking and teleshopping from the home. The same technology is used in the entertainment industry to provide cable and satellite television videotape and laser disk films. See also INTERNET.
