Decision Making

An obvious effect of the Information Age is the amount of information sources available. People nowadays are bombarded with data and freedom of choice in a way they never used to be. A major impact of this is the fact that people can feel stress and a sense of hopelessness because of the overload of information. This is particularly correct if the information is not straight forward or clear about the subject it talks about.
My Grandmother does not know a lot about technology and therefore already I would suggest a cell phone over a smartphone. The difference between the two is that a cell phone cannot really do a lot of the things a smartphone does. With this said a smartphone is like a mini computer as it runs an operating system that allows them to do everything that a computer does. My grandmother is not good with technology as I have already mentioned so a cell phone will be more than perfect for her. I would however suggest that she gets a cell phone with a physical QWERTY keyboard so if she does decide to start using computers then she will at least be familiar with the keyboard setup.
She is ok with her eye sight which is a god send because a lot of these cell phones are quite small which means the keys on these phones are small. I have seen a Nokia 201 Charcoal in Tesco for £45.00. This is a good price to pay for a cell phone. It fits the criteria for my grandmother, this is because she wants a mobile phone that isn't too expensive and is fairly simple.

Managing the Information Overload
A spreadsheet can help with decision making because it filters out information and puts it into catagories. This makes the information more digestible or in some cases  makes it somewhat easier to make a decision due to less clouded judgement from the overload of irrelevant information.
Simulation software can help with decision making because it takes something that is something great and quite complicated and simplifies it using mathematical formulas. This is also all without an individual actually performing a single operation. This would help because a machine would calculate the right outcome to make decisions easier.