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Computers and
Society
The decade of the 1980’s saw an
explosion in computer technology and computer usage that deeply changed
society. Today computers are a part of everyday life, they are in their
simplest form a digital watch or more complexly computers manage power
grids, telephone networks, and the money of the world. Henry Grunwald,
former US ambassador to Austria best describes the computer’s functions,
“It enables the mind to ask questions, find answers, stockpile
knowledge, and devise plans to move mountains, if not worlds.” Society
has embraced the computer and accepted it for its many powers which can
be used for business, education, research, and warfare.
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Computers
and the Disabled
The computer age has changed many
things for many people, but for the disabled the computer has ultimately
changed their entire life. Not only has it made life exceedingly easier
for all disabled age groups, it has also made them able to be more
employable in the work force. Previously unemployable people can now
gain the self esteem from fully supporting themselves. Computers have
given them the advantages of motion were it had not previously existed.
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COPING WITH
COMPUTERS
While the twentieth century has
proven to be a technological revolution, there has not been a single
development with as much impact on our day to day lives than that of the
computer. For many, the development of the modern computer has provided
more widespread business opportunities, greater production efficiency,
and greater convenience at both work and home than any other innovation
has provided us with.
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Cyber sex
Cyber sex. This word brings to mind a barrage of images, which might be
on Star Trek or virtual reality video by aerosmith. Sex is everywhere
today--in books, magazines, films, internet, television, and music
videos. Something about the combination of sex and computers seems to
make children and adults for that matter, a little crazy.
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Cyberspace in
Perspective
If a survey were being done on how people experience cyberspace, one
would immediately notice that no two answers would be the same.
Experiencing cyberspace is something that is different for every
individual. I myself experience cyberspace psychologically, I experience
it in my mind. There have been many attempts at trying to define the
abstruse term, but up to date, no one has pinned the tail on the donkey.
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Development of Computers and Technology
Computers in some form are in almost everything these days. From
Toasters to Televisions, just about all electronic things has some form
of processor in them. This is a very large change from the way it used
to be, when a computer that would take up an entire room and weighed
tons of pounds has the same amount of power as a scientific calculator.
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Does
Microsoft Have Too Much Power
Initially, there is nothing.
Then, there is Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft. Once a young, eager
teenager running a small business of other teenagers, now the richest
man in the world controlling an operating system practically every IBM
compatible computer in the world uses. Computers are not the only thing
that Microsoft desires. Now, they wish to influence the Internet. With
all the opportunities that it offers, many companies race to develop
software to get people and businesses on the Internet. Many dislike the
power Microsoft has come to possess and might gain more of, but is there
anything anybody can do? IBM has taken on the leader of software with an
innovative new operating system known as OS/2, but will they have a
chance? Microsoft may be unstoppable with its foundation, influence and
power but is that enough to practically own the computerized world as we
know it?
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ECODISC
Ecodisc is a program which allows
the user to take on the role of a Nature Reserve Manager. It was
designed by a man named Peter Bratt, and Englishman in South
Devon. Ecodisc is designed so that the user can see what effects
certain changes can make on the environment with out actually
making the changes. Ecodisc is a good educational tool showing new
users the effects of certain decisions. It can also be used a map,
because it lets you see various parts of the nature reserve
without actually going there.
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Electronic Commerce
Initially, the Internet was
designed to be used by government and academic users, but now it is
rapidly becoming commercialized. It has on-line "shops", even electronic
"shopping malls". Customers, browsing at their computers, can view
products, read descriptions, and sometimes even try samples. What they
lack is the means to buy from their keyboard, on impulse. They could pay
by credit card, transmitting the necessary data by modem; but
intercepting messages on the Internet is trivially easy for a smart
hacker, so sending a credit-card number in an unscrambled message is
inviting trouble.
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Electronic Monitoring vs. Health Concerns
Is privacy and electronic monitoring in the work place an issue that is
becoming a problem? More and more employees are being monitored today
then ever before and the companies that do it aren't letting off. While
electronic monitoring in the work place may be the cause of increased
stress levels and tension, the benefits far exceed the harm that it may
cause. Employees don't realize how often electronic monitoring happens
in their work place.
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Escapism
and Virtual Reality
The use of computers in society
provides obvious benefits and some drawbacks. `Virtual Reality', a new
method of interacting with any computer, is presented and its advantages
and disadvantages are considered. The human aspect of computing and
computers as a form of escapism are developed, with especial reference
to possible future technological developments. The consequences of a
weakening of the sense of reality based upon the physical world are also
considered. Finally, some ways to reduce the unpleasant aspects of this
potential dislocation are examined. A glossary of computing terms is
also included.
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Fiber Optics
Information (data and voice) is
transmitted through the fiber digitally by the use of high speed LASERs
(Light Amplification through the Simulated Emission of Radiation) or
LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). Each of these methods create a highly
focused beam of light that is cycled on and off at very high speeds.
Computers at the
transmitting end convert data or voice into "bits" of information. The
information is then sent through the fiber by the presence, or lack, of
light. Computers on the receiving end convert the light back into data
or voice, so it can be used.
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The First
Generation
The first generation of computers, beginning
around the end of World War 2, and continuing until around the year
1957, included computers that used vacuum tubes, drum memories, and
programming in machine code.
Computers at that time where mammoth machines that did not have the
power our present day desktop microcomputers.
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Global Village-
Internet
Imagine a place where people interact in business situations, shop, play
video games, do research, or study and get tutoring. Now imagine that
there are no office buildings, no shopping centers, no arcades, no
libraries, and no schools. These places all exist in a location called
the Internet - "an anarchic eyetem (to use an oxymoron) of public and
private computer networks that span the globe." (Clark 3). This
technological advance not only benefits people of the present, but also
brings forth future innovations. People use the Internet for many
purposes, yet there are three popular reasons. First, there is the
sending and receiving of messages through the electronic mail. Second,
there are discussion groups with a wide range of topics in which people
can join. Finally, people are free to browse into vast collection of
resources (or databases) of the World Wide Web.
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Government Intervention on the Internet
During the last decade, our society
has become based on the sole ability to move large amounts of
information across great distances quickly. Computerization has
influenced everyone's life in numerous ways. The natural evolution of
computer technology and this need for ultra-fast communications has
caused a global network
of interconnected computers to develop. This global network allows a
person to send E-mail across the world in mere fractions of a second,
and allows a common person to access wealth's of information worldwide.
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History of the Computer Industry in America
Only once in a lifetime will a new
invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device
that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A
machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every
business in the U.S. and one out of every two households (Hall, 156).
This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has
been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around
for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years has it changed the
American society. From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed
microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of peoples
lives for the better.
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History of The
Internet
The Internet is a worldwide connection of thousands of computer
networks. All of them speak the same language, TCP/IP, the standard
protocol. The Internet allows people with access to these networks to
share
information and knowledge. Resources available on the Internet are chat
groups, e-mail, newsgroups, file transfers, and the World Wide Web. The
Internet has no centralized authority and it is uncensored. The Internet
belongs to everyone and to no one.
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Computer Graphics
Hollywood has gone digital, and
the old ways of doing things are dying. Animation and special effects
created with computers have been embraced by television networks,
advertisers, and movie studios alike. Film editors, who for decades
worked by painstakingly cutting and gluing film segments together, are
now sitting in front of computer screens. There, they edit entire
features while adding sound that is not only stored digitally, but
also has been created and manipulated with computers. Viewers are
witnessing the results of all this in the form of stories and
experiences that they never dreamed of before. Perhaps the most
surprising aspect of all this, however, is that the entire digital
effects and animation industry is still in its infancy. The future looks
bright. How It Was
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How Technology Effects Modern America
The microeconomic picture of the U.S.
has changed immensely since 1973, and the trends are proving to be
consistently downward for the nation’s high school graduates and high
school drop-outs. “Of all the reasons given for the wage squeeze –
international competition, technology, deregulation, the decline of
unions and defense cuts – technology is probably the most critical. It
has favored the educated and the skilled,” says M. B. Zuckerman,
editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report (7/31/95). Since 1973, wages
adjusted for inflation have declined by about a quarter for high school
dropouts, by a sixth for high school graduates, and by about 7% for
those with some college education. Only the wages of college graduates
are up.
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How to make a
Web Page
For my science project I chose to
create a web (internet) page, dealing with science. This project
consists of using a computer and a html editor to create a page that can
be found on the internet. The next paragraph will explain how to make an
internet page.
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HOW WILL OUR
FUTURE BE?
The way the future is heading seems
to be very clear but as before things may change. The time to come will
never reveal itself until it has actually been. From this point of view
I will try to describe the way I see the future coming our way.
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IMPLEMENTING A CAD SYSTEM TO REDUCE COSTS
This report will analyze a
proposal on how Woodbridge Foam could become more competitive through
improvements in technology. This includes the saving of the companies
money, shortening the design time for new products, decreasing quoting
time and improving quality overall. By implementing a company wide CAD
system, which would be networked together with each customer and all
plants, these improvements could be achieved. Research will include
interviewing various employees as to how business is done and what
influences the winning or loosing of a contract. Research will also
include study of both customer and competitors systems.
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Improvements to the School District's Local Area Network
This evaluation of our school
district’s network of personal computers will closely examine the
current system and identify potential improvements to this system. This
evaluation will be of the administrative departments in the school
district which are handled separately from the educational departments.
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORT OF INTERNET ADDICTION
The purpose of this paper is to
make you, the reader, alert and more aware of the newest type of
addiction, Internet addiction. Many people would call it exaggeration to
classify spending a lot of time on the Internet as an addiction, but
since the subject is a fairly new not everybody is taking it as serious
as they should be.
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