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Coping With Computers - School Essays

Coping With Computers

PROF. GARTNER
While the twentieth century has proven to be a technological revolution,
there has not been a single development with as much impact on our day to day
lives than that of the computer. For many, the development of the modern
computer has provided more widespread business opportunities, greater production
efficiency, and greater convenience at both work and home than any other
innovation has provided us with.
Many of the degrees earned today did not exist twenty years ago. Many
of the computer sciences degrees are based on technologies that were not even
developed not so long ago. The resulting situation is a work force that has
been caught with their ‘pants down.' For ...

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of her first experiences with a computer involved sending a message
over the AP news wire. As it turns out, she expressed her candid opinion on
some very sensitive topics at the time, including but not limited to the Vietnam
War. Consequently, the AP was not amused with the message and she was fired.
At the time, this incident was popular enough to make it into Newsweek magazine.
Later on, she moved into television as a reporter, but now owns her own
production company, Lucky Duck Productions. Here, she realized that computers
act as the driving force in a technologically based industry. She also realized
that the younger generations are certainly more comfortable and at home with
personal computers.
While running her production company, she tells of her experience with
her favorite ‘ghost employee.' In her efforts to find a system administrator,
she was referred to Columbia University's Center for Telecommunication Research.
There, she negotiated a salary via e-mail, ...

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Added: 10/16/2004 06:13:59 AM
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