Computer Technology and its Impact on Society
             By Julie A. Rodgers, For The Paper Store - July 1999
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             Most of us are benefiting a great deal from the
             technological advances being made in the computer and
             industry. Even the writing of this paper would not be
             possible, or as probable, without the computer technology
             that is available today. From our automobiles to
             airplanes, from our employment to our vacations, nearly
             everything we do is linked somehow to a computer and the
             advancements made in the computer industry. But this does
             not necessarily make the technological growth of computers
             a good thing for society in general. While it has
             certainly given us a great deal of benefits that are
             incredibly important, such as life saving devices, it has
             also driven us further and further away from living our
             lives as human beings, in the purest sense of the meaning.
             We are moving further and further away from understanding
             what it is to be human and what it is to work and think
             independently from technology. This is not necessarily a
             Back in the earlier days f the computer, we were
             truly thrilled with it. Even as short a time ago as the
             late 1980's, we were still unsure of what it was capable
             "The advent of the microcomputer has already had
             a significant impact on society, but it will be
             during the decade of the 1990s that a lasting
             impression will be made. Computer technology
             took us to the moon in the 1960s, gave us credit
             cards in the 1970s, and automated teller
             machines and lotteries in the 1980s. Now, at the
             beginning of the 1990s, computer technology is
             strategically nonexpendable in the corporate
             world. The computers that affect the world today
             are still mostly mainframes and minicomputers,
             but within the next decade the influence of
             computing technology will b...