tain themselves. Something that is very relaxing as well as entertaining is playing video games. Video gaming isn't just for men as it used to be. "According to the fourth annual Video and PC Game Industry Trends Survey more women are buying and playing games than ever before. Thirty-five percent of those who play console games, such as the Sony PlayStation, are women and; more then forty-three percent of those who play PC games are women. This is a slight increase from last year's results. Women are purchasing more game software as well. In 1999 women purchased forty-nine percent of the PC game software and fifty-one percent of console game software" (Diamond 64). It seems now that women have caught on to how great video games can be. There are now more women buying console games then there are men. Companies such as Sony and Nintendo must be very happy about that (Diamond 64). One of the most commonplace things involving computer technology that people use to relax is the compact disc (CD) player. Many do not know how the CD player actually works. The CD, first of all, is a thin metal disk coated in plastic with a three-mile long groove with high and low points that represent binary numbers (1 and 0). The CD player uses a laser that scans the groove and uses the binary code to reproduce the music on the CD (Carter 67). Almost all music lovers have CD players but the lucky people who own a year 2000 Jaguar S type have a voice activated CD player. All the listener has to do is tell it what CD and what track and it will play it (Car Go to the Store... 8). This is only a sign that computer technology is still advancing and will continue to advance. Computers have changed the world in almost everything that almost everyone does from the way people buy things to the way they listen to music. Computers have changed everyday life in the way society drives, communicates, and relaxes. Computers have made it possible for a man to live comfortabl...
