ing in our homes, and also the production of our food and how it is stored until we buy it. These have all been improved by computers. The quality of life we live now is so much greater than people years ago ever could have imagined. We even have the technology through computers to help people livelonger.There has also been a social impact that computers have had on our society. Communication has advanced greatly since the development of the Internet. There was a survey given to people of news groups and others that were on electronic mailing lists to see what people thought about face-to-face communication compared to on-line communication. Most people thought that communicating on-line was much different than communicating in person. This survey showed that women were treated much better when communicating on-line. Men said that sexist thoughts were diminished when talking to women on the Internet and women said that the were able to speak their minds. So there is somewhat of an advantage to communicating on-line (Meadahl 22). These examples have shown how the computer has had an enormous impact on world. They have made our lives hundreds of times easier than they would have been without computers. What does the future hold for computers? Some of the things that people say are unreal. We have almost made it to the point to where computers are good enough to understand what we say. So far people have been working on ways to use computers just by talking using a vocabulary of maybe one hundred to two hundred words. It would be nice just to be able to say “back” and you would get a backspace. Also there has been ideas of physical communication over the Internet. This would consist of someone having a device for their hands that they would squeeze in certain places. The person at the other end would have this same type of device that would be able to received the motions of the other person. At some point p...
