.... for a vast amount of information and entertainment. We can expect to see: movies-on-demand, video games, databases, educational programming, home shopping, telephone services, telebanking, teleconferencing, even the complex simulations of virtual reality. This souped-up television will itself be a powerful computer. This, many believe, will be the world's biggest media group, letting consumers tune into anything, anywhere, anytime. The most extraordinary thing about the multimedia boom, is that so many moguls are spending such vast sums to develop digital technologies, for the delivering of programs and services which are still largely hypothetical. So what is behind ....

.... peripheral for all computer users today. Word was developed in September 1983 as the first Office family application. The biggest invention in was Windows, a more user-friendly and more powerful operating system than MS-DOS. formed their headquarter in Redmond, Washington, In the same year, its stock went public and started at $21 per share. The updated version of Windows operating system went on sale in 1990 and five years later the complete makeover version named Windows 95 was launched. And now the much debated and controversial program called Windows 98 was launched last June. (Martin, et al., 1995) Why did the Windows 98 program become so controversial? Du ....

.... up. Of the fastest growing technical jobs, software engineering tops the list. Carnegie Mellon University reports, “recruitment of it's software engineering students is up this year by over 20%.” All engineering jobs are paying well, proving that highly skilled labor is what employers want! “There is clear evidence that the supply of workers in the [unskilled labor] categories already exceeds the demand for their services,” says L. Mishel, Research Director of Welfare Reform Network. In view of these facts, I wonder if these trends are good or bad for society. “ The danger of the information age is that while in the short run it may be cheaper to replace worker ....

.... the need to navigate through several open application windows to get to the one you need. When you first start an application, a corresponding button appears on the task bar. If after opening other windows you need to return to the original window, all you need do is click on the application's button on the task bar and the appropriate window will come to the fore. According to Aley, "the most gratifying, and overdue, improvement is Windows 95's tolerance for file names in plain English" (29-30). Traditionally, users had to think of file names that summed up their work in eight letters or less. This was a constant problem because frequently a user would look at a list of f ....

.... a term paper in a split second, using graphics to better express a particular point or idea, and being able to tap into the world wide web where vast amounts of information is at the fingertips of the user is a marked improvement from 10 years ago. Furthermore, the use of computers in the home has extended the hours we can learn at a higher level without the environmental pressures of school or work thereby improving the way we learn.(paragraph)Also, the use of computers has expanded our choices for entertainment. As an example, the all-American game of Monopoly can be played by a single person and a computer and the need for several people has been obsoleted is one way our ....

.... is that access to computers should be free and unlimited. This is not meant to be a invasion of privacy issue, but rather free use of all computers and what they have to offer. They also believe that anyone should be able to use all of a computers resource with no restrictions as to what may be accessed or viewed. This belief is controversial, it not only could infringe upon people's right to privacy, but give up trade secrets as well. A deep mistrust of authority, some hackers consider authority to be a constriction force. Not all hackers believe in this ethic, but generally authority represents something that would keep people from being able to have full access and/ ....

.... of computer systems and the methods they will use in manipulating data. In 1966, Philip Kotler had the first description of how managers could benefit from the powerful capabilities of the electronic computer as a management tool. In 1969, Berson developed a marketing information system for marketing research. In 1970, the Montgomery urban model was developed stressing the quantitative aspect of management by highlighting a data bank, a model bank, and a measurement statistics bank. All of these factors will be influential on future models of storing data in a pool. According to Martine, in 1981, a database is a shared collection of interrelated data designed to m ....

.... area are information processing, pattern recognition, game-playing computers, and applied fields such as medical diagnosis. Current research in information processing deals with programs that enable a computer to understand written or spoken information and to produce summaries, answer specific questions, or redistribute information to users interested in specific areas of this information. Essential to such programs is the ability of the system to generate grammatically correct sentences and to establish linkages between words, ideas, and associations with other ideas. Research has shown that whereas the logic of language structure—its syntax—submits to programming, th ....