Modern+Media+Summer+Homework


 * How has technology changed the way we live? **

Technology affects almost every aspect of our lives. Just look around you and you'll see [|how wired we are]. Thanks to the [|Internet], virtually anything you desire can be delivered to your door in a matter of days. Personal information is more accessible over the Internet as well -- you can look up everything from a long-lost cousin to the registered [|sex offenders] in your neighborhood. You can even trade [|stocks] or file taxes online. Parents don't need to lose [|sleep] waiting for their teenage daughter to come home -- they can just call her [|cell phone], or send an unobtrusive text, to check up. But as much as our personal lives have changed, the business world has revolutionized almost beyond recognition in the past few decades. Technology -- and we mean the advances in communication and information technology -- has changed the face and the pace of business. As communication and information travels faster and faster, the world seems smaller and smaller, and this has large implications for the way we conduct business. Storing important in files on a [|computer] rather than in drawers, for instance, has made information easily accessible. Using [|e-mail] allows businesses to communicate and send these files quickly to remote locations outside of an office. Many argue technology has blurred the line between professional and private lives. [|Wireless Internet], cell phones and [|BlackBerries] have made it easy to work from home -- or for that matter, from the beach. The fact that it's easy to work from the beach compels people to do so. On the flip side, people also feel compelled to use Internet access at work for personal reasons. In this way, technology allows workaholics to work and slackers to slack. So, exactly how has technology changed the way we live?

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 * Write a short essay on the way technology has changed your life. **

How has your social life been changed by technology? How has technology change the way you learn at school? How has technology change the way music is created and delivered? How has technology change the way you do business? Ask your parents, how they spent their leisure time when they were teenager. How that different in the way you spend it?