With advancements in technology such as the Internet and wireless capabilities, the act of storing photos, documents, and other personal information in the cloud has increased as well. In the past, we stored all of this data in physical form in our homes or offices or, at most, data was stored loca...

Throughout history, technological advances have always altered society. Elizabeth Schwartz Cowan argues in her book A Social History of American Technology that from the earliest times, technology has had significant impact on the social, economic and political makeup. This is not a new phenomenon t...

Technology. The Way of the Future? The 90's has been a decade full of controversial and world changing events. The first one I could think of would have to be the Persian Gulf War with Iraq. I think that war brought together the United States, stopped our fighting with each other, and helped us focu...

Civil EngineeringWhen I was a little boy my father bought me an erector set, I used to spend hours on end everyday building stuff from bridges to buildings. Ever since then I knew that I wanted to be a civil engineer and nothing else would do. Last year I enrolled at Michigan Technological Univers...

Digital technology has a lot of impact on our national security. Such technology innovations as the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, US-VISIT program, and Automated Biometric Identification System use biometrics as a key element in protecting our country from terrorists. Other...

"The Y2K problem is the electronic equivalent of the El Niño and there will be nasty surprises around the globe."--John Hamre, Dep. Secretary of Defense When I was in the first grade, my elementary school invested in several computers and started Introduction to Computers classes...

Hackers, Not Slackers Since the introduction of personal computers in the 1970's, the art of computer hacking has grown along with changing roles of computers in society. Computers have taken over our lives. People could not function without them; our electricity is run by computers, the g...

Advances in technology and new emerging technology have caused many privacy advocate groups, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, to start voicing real concerns about privacy.(no your not paranoid p. 512) Powerful surveillance equipment such as face recognition software and programs used by w...

What's New In The New Economy?Nyala Khan11/27/00When you picture the economy of America you can only visualize prosperity. America's economy is a new economy and the reason behind that is the technology involved in every action taken towards the economy. People don't run the economy the computers a...

Over the past month you could not pick up a newspaper without finding an article about the recent Denial of Service (DOS) attacks on E-commerce sites over the Internet. This increase in Internet security problems and crimes, is paving the way for tougher legislation in regards to monitoring and t...

Computers have become part of our everyday lives. From thecomputerized chip in our vehicles to the check out lines at stores, we aredependent upon this type of technology in our world today. Relying oncomputers becomes more evident everyday, from filing taxes to communicatingwith family, frien...

Computers have come to enhance many avenues of our lives. The way we work and the way we play was forever altered by the vast advances in technology. Due to these strides we can see the benefits and the disadvantages associated with computers. For this assignment I decided to take a personal per...

Informational Terrorism The introduction of the computer has created a new type of terrorism known as informational terrorism, which presents a threat, equal to or greater than physical terrorism. E-mail bombs and attacks on internet servers are the lowest forms of informational terrorism in te...

Informational Terrorism The introduction of the computer has created a new type of terrorism known as informational terrorism, which presents a threat, equal to or greater than physical terrorism. E-mail bombs and attacks on internet servers are the lowest forms of informational terrorism in t...

The latest computer games involve pretty gruesome scenes - severed limbs and drive-by shootings are standard fare. But opinion is divided on whether such games give rise to real-life violence. From this divided opinion, there a many disputes involving whether to let minors to buy the games without...

MEGANS LAW ACC 351 Business Law Professor Coffey April 22, 2001 Privacy, the right to be left alone. Privacy includes both freedom and government interference in private or family matters and confidentiality of such things as personal correespondence, telephone cal...

Technology is changing the world. Some of the more significant technological advances have been made in the field of communications. Every few months a new way of sharing information is developed and disseminated. The newest information being shared is music and the technologies being utilized a...

college essay Learning is a continuous process in life since we are constantly influenced by everything known and unknown around us. Whether one considers making learning a formal process by attending educational institutions and being recognized for their achievements, or informall...

The United States Economy and OutsourcingOutsourcing is an agreement to have work done for a company by people not employed by that particular company. Outsourcing is a trend in corporations that is especially found today in the information technology field. In certain businesses, the whole informat...

In February 5, 1996 AT&T announced that its new systems and technology company has selected Lucent Technologies as its name. Lucent currently employees 153,000 people worldwide and have offices or distributors in more than 90 countries.Lucent now is a global company on the technology's cutting edge...

The infamy of 9/11 was a tragic attack that devastated the citizens of The United States. In September of 2001, Islamic terrorist group "al-Qaeda" attacked The World Trade Center in New York, and the Pentagon in Virginia. The cause of the attack was due to the United States support of Israel, the pr...

The current spate of globalization brought myriad benefits to industries around the world. The United States alone benefited by way of outsourcing a lot of its industries to Third World Countries and emerging economies like China, India, the Philippines and Russia. The main reason for this endeavor ...

How have the modern communications technologies of the past century affected the culture of the United States? It's like a disease spreading all over the United States but not something that you would run from. This is a type of disease you want to get because it's the future. Tech...

In today's society our most valuable commodity is not grain, steel or even technology; it is information. Because of computer networks, just about everyone can now access an astounding range of information. The Internet is international, even though 80 percent of the Internet use occurs in th...

History is the study of the past. For historians the past dates back to 4,000 B.C., when events were first marked by writing, until present day. In its content history is everything. Historians spend their whole lives figuring out which events are more substancial than others. In order to achie...