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Effects of Computers and the Internet on Society Printable Version PRINTABLE VERSION
by Shakti, United Kingdom Aug 14, 2003
Technology   Short Stories

  

Before we know it, technology is going to pass us by. With the invention of the computer and the Internet, the possibilities are endless. Society is changing by leaps and bounds, with no chance of a stopping point in the near future. All this change is dealing with computers and the effects that it will have on the way we live tomorrow. The Internet affects us in every way, most importantly with our social lives, our jobs, and our entertainment.

Our social lives are not just communicating with telephones and mail anymore. Going “on-line” is the new way we like to communicate with people. Chat rooms on the Internet are open for people to talk and explore with other people who may live on the other side of the world or the other side of the street. E-Mail is also another popular way to correspond with others. Users can electronically send mail to another person with an on-line mailbox, simply by typing in their message and sending it by the click of a button. Two seconds to send e-mail to someone on the other side of the world is much quicker than a week or more through the ordinary mail. The Internet can also affect our jobs.

Computers can calculate and figure out things much quicker than the average person. This process cannot only save time, but money too. Stock trading is now on the Internet, along with banking and any other type of business you could imagine. The world wants thing to be quick and easy. The best answer to that is to have a computer do it for you. In the future, hundreds of millions of jobs will be taken away from honest hard-working employees and will be given to computers. No matter what choices we make, or what plans we change, these outcomes are going to become real. Why would a business pay someone to take phone orders, when a computer can do it in less time and make it both cheaper and easier for the business and the buyer?

Computers and the Internet are definitely affecting the way we entertain ourselves. The most basic example is card games. If the computer can deal out cards on a screen with the click of a button, why would anyone want to deal out a deck of cards manually and have to clean them up afterwards? On the Internet, you can gamble with on-line casinos, place bets on a horse race, or even watch movies. People can do all of these activities in the comfort of their own home. No gas money is wasted or time spent driving around to find entertainment so people are happy. The inevitable outcome of this magnificent invention is going to change the world. Society is happy about the way things are changing. Cheaper is better, less time consuming is better. With the choice of having a computer and being on-line, there is almost nothing you cannot do. This remarkable idea of the Internet is going to revolutionize the way we live in the future.







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Great text!
Marina Oliveira Di Migueli | Nov 11th, 2003
hey, this text is great! i dont know english verrrry well, but i could understand perfectely. well, congratulations to the author :)



UMWANZURO KI IMBERE YA COMPUTER NA INTERNET
Kanamugire Cléophas | Dec 12th, 2003
Nk'uko muri kubibona, uwo ari we wese yasubiza uko abyumva ariko, ntibyoroshye guhita usubiza. Kugirango usubize byaterwa n'uko utekereza kuri uriya mutwe. Mbona rero abantu bagombye gutekereza ku bintu bikurikira. 1. Ese nzi Computer icyo ari cyo no kuyikoresha ? 2. Ese aho ntuye yaba Computer na Internet bihabarizwa ? 3. Nzayikoresha iki ? Umuntu amaze kwibaza ibyo bintu yagasubije koko. Nanditse mu rurimi rw'Ikinyarwanda kugirango utumva indimi z'amahanga yumve kandi niba hari n'umunyarwanda uri hanze usura iyi web site anyungure ibitekerezo. Jyewe rero na bagenzi banjye twategereje kuri biriya bitatu dusanga ino i Rwanda tugomba kugira icyo dukora ngo Itumanaho rigezweho ryoye kuducika kuko ntitwarazwe ubuswa. Ni muri urwo rwego twashinze icyitwa COMPUTER AND INTERNET LITERACY CLUB hano i Butare none turimo turashaka abadufasha ngo iyo gahunda igerweho. Tuzashishikariza abanyarwanda kumenya Computer na Internet, tubigishe uko bikoreshwa, maze tubereke ibyiza biri muri iryo terambere dore ko nyine isi yacu iri guhindura imibereho bitewe n'ibyo bintu. Ngaho rero nababwira iki mudufashe cyane duhere ku rubyiruko kuko ni rwo rwanda rweje kandi dufashe na bariya basa nk'aho computer na Internet ntacyo bibabwiye maze u Rwanda rube igicumbi cya Computer and Internet Literacy nk'uko bashobora kuvuga ngo igihugu iki niki gifite 60% bazi gusoma no kwandika naho 40% ntibabizi maze bajye bavuga ngo u Rwanda 100% bazi gukoresha computer na Internet ! Murakoze, KANAMUGIRE Cl

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