MODERN WORLD FOR MODERN PEOPLE?

By: Mary Joy Mondero

      The computer and the web have certainly had a profound impact on our society and on most of the rest of the world as well. The new year clearly indicates that this isn't a temporary trend but one that will continue in ways that will, no doubt, continue to surprise us.

     Change has taken its toll. Small local businesses face competition from those large enough to use web as a promotional and marketing tools. My prediction is that many won't survive if they don't innovate.

     Among individuals, many of the poor are locked into their poverty by a lack of computer skills. Others have simply been left behind, bewildered and confused, unwilling or unable to accept changes. Yet computers and the web have enormously extended the horizons of those who have learned to use them- and those to do so. The effects on the poor are clear, there are efforts being made to compensate, but there is also a question of the effect on those who do grasp the changes and make them their own. How will their psyches be changed by the technical revolution?

      What about those who are riding its crest? How will they be effected and will it be for better or worse? It seems evident there will always be both positive and negative effects.As more people learn what it can do for them, the greater its possibilities will become to those able and willing to exploit them.

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