How Emerging Technology Effects Society:The invention of the automobile by Henry Ford in 1903 started a domino effect on society that would change the face of modern civilization as we know it. Within 50 years of its creation, cars were changing from an item of luxury to an item of necessity, and th...

Engineering can be defined as "the putting together of things."(Internet source, "What is engineering?") This definition has summarized a profession that dates back to ancient times. Many things have been accomplished by early engineers. The great pyramids in Egypt for example ar...

Kent Fillmore BGMT302 May 01, 2001:15:35:00 The Impact of the Information Age on Society Introduction: I have, since my earliest memories, been fascinated by the rapid advancements in science and technology. I have seen, in the course of the last 40+ years, our ability to affect the world aroun...

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Tomorrow's Technology Introduction I have chosen the topic Tomorrow's Technology for my I.S.P. I choose this topic because I'm interested in the direction in which our technology is expanding. I find new technologies intriguing and fascinating. The technology of tomorrow is expan...

A quote I heard many times when I was in high school and which I now know traces back to Sir Francis Bacon, one of our earliest scientist or philosophers as they were then called, is the statement "Knowledge Is Power." Today, I believe that the fuller, more correct statement is to say, "the applicat...

The Digital Divide and Cultural Significance by Dennis L. Wignall, Ph.D.U.S. Government officials and social researchers have long been studying the phenomenon labeled ?The Digital Divide? (DD). The DD is defined as the distance between those people who possess functional computing skills in suppor...

The Computer Underground. The beginning of the electronic communication revolution that started with the public use of telephones to the emergence of home computers has been accompanied by corresponding social problems involving the activities of so-called "computer hackers," or better referred to...

THE COMPUTER HARDWARE INDUSTRY Executive Summary: The computer industry is capital intensive and technologically driven and can be divided into three main segments; the supercomputer, mainframe, and personal computer. There have been several factors that have impacted the computer indust...

TABLE OF CONTENTSMICROSOFT HISTORY 1EARLY INFLUENCES 2FIRST BUSINESS VENTURE 3EDUCATION ATTEMPT 3THE MOTIVATIONAL SIDE OF FEAR 4A JAPANESE CONNECTION 5IBM INFLUENCE 5SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 6A CRUCIAL DEAL 6COMPETITION ERRORS 7BIRTH OF WINDOWS 7MISSION STATEMENT AND ANALYSIS 8INDUSTRY AND COMPETITVE...

Piracy In 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $12.5 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show that over 40 percent of U.S. software company revenues are generated overseas, yet nearly 85 per...

Computer CrimeJames George states that it is a story as old as humanity: "New times bring new crimes" (97, F1). First came cars, car thieves followed. Telephones were followed by telephone fraud. Now we have computers. Computers have made home, school and office life easier. Our society re...

IntroductionFor thousands of years, maybe since the beginning of time, people search for better ways to improve the quality of life. And for the past hundred of years, computers eventually took stand in the world. Today, computers are generally used as a productive, educational, communication, and...