We're surrounded by technology of course, not all of it new. Even the pair of scissors in front of me is an old and useful technology. Once i started to think about it i was amazed to reflect on how much easier life has become with contemporary technology. Things that many people do every day such as netbanking, reading online newspapers, sending email, checking out real estate sites are all things we take for granted. In the area we work in - that of information - the changes have been enormous. When I first started work(for a media organisation) it was still a world of typewriters and linotype machines. Court reports had to be phoned in from a public phone and dictated to a woman sitting at a typewriter. Now we see journalists reporting via satellite phone from world troublespots and have seen the rise of the citizen blog as a way of getting information to the rest of the world.
Remember Knowledge is Power (Sir Francis Bacon, pictured above)
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