Whenever someone would have asked just 5 years ago if you had to advance one thing either the TV or the Computer in about cases the TV would have stayed. Today I think we’d answer very differently.
Finish the weekend I was preparing a list of tasks that I wanted to complete and sitting ahead of my laptop it dawned on me about how far we have enter our use of computers in the past 10 years only.
Now our computers provide us with a diverse range of experiences and opportunities so wide that they’re almost impossible to comprehend:-
1. Electronic mail – global instant electronic communication
2. Data resource far greater than any library at our fingertips
3. Sociable platform to keep in touch with friends and family
4. Base to meet new people, forums, dating sites
5. Act tool, Cloud computing solutions, designers, web sites, blogs, membership sites… Working as an employed person, running your own small business or even just keeping track of your own finances
6. Allows options to Enable people to work from home at a time to suit them
7. Amusement platform, Browsing the Internet, Radio, TV, You Tube, Gaming
8. Transmit and engage with people in other countries at very low or zero cost… with video, so that we can see the people we are speaking to
9. Allows us with many ways to be creative and broadcast ourselves, Video, Audio, Pictures, social platforms, twitter, Blogs, forums
10. Bring in money, outsourcing services, Affiliate Marketing
11. Bring off our money – online banking / online trading
12. Buying at, travel…
The computer has become in the last 5 years a commodity item too! With prices of computers tumbling it’s never been easier for people to acquire aboard and experience the Internet.
Bill Gates and Microsoft have acted upon an amazing transition in the world by bringing easy to use computing to the masses. At present old and young alike are able to use the computer to accomplish tasks such that as paying bills, checking bank accounts and shopping. Now literally anyone can do it!
What accepts the next 10 – 20 years arrived store for us? The explosion of the social networking scene will transform the amount of information which is accessible about individuals. We assume the ease of which we can search something up using Google and other tools… and this applies to catching out about people we meet too! If you can’t be found on the Internet then what have you annoyed hide? or are you just out of touch… our online presence will become an important part of how we’re seen in the world even as important as our real physical form.
Certainly the world is moving quickly and with computers it moves much faster than in other areas. Whether we view the Internet as the human beings volunteering to be in a ‘big brother’ society and distrust it with a vengeance, or see it as the opportunity of a lifetime and the most astonishing time to be alive, is a matter of individual choice… personally I see it as a great enabler for many people and one which transcends class or creed.
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