Effects of Technology

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When we go to the grocery store we gather items and check out. Those items getting scanned are being processed thru a computer. Once scanned the computer displays the information on a screen then computes to give us our total. Computers are the backbone for creating, designing and storing information and ideas. We use computers for global communication, transportation and innovation.

In today’s world we use computers to access the internet. People have been interacting on the internet thru email, webcams, and chat rooms. I am sure that WWII veterans would rather have emailed a loved one and wait a couple of seconds for a response than wait several months. People use the internet to interact with other people from many miles apart. One person can be in Seattle, Washington U.S.A. while the other person is in Chimboy, Uzbekistan.

From cars to airplanes, trains to ships they all use computers now. Newly built automobiles put a computer in to let the driver know if they have an engine problem or a flat tire. Soon automobiles will be driving themselves. A few years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon's blue-sky high-tech research wing that everyone calls DARPA, decided it was interested in developing robotic vehicles that could drive themselves: no remote control, no human intervention, only artificial intelligence behind the wheel (Lev Grossman, 2007). Airlines have computers on their planes to help the aviator fly the plane. Ships use computers to let them know what

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Weather lies ahead for them out at sea. Trains have computers to let the conductor know when he will be crossing