... of workers worldwide. Robot machines that produce a better product in a shorter span of time. Is the world on the brink of yet another industrial revolution? Where shall this advance take us? Into a global system of social relation and peace--where people from all over the world can intertwine within a perfect Utopia? Or will it cause pain and suffering due to a worldwide depression? A scale that would be twenty-times the size of the Great Depression during the 1920's. Technology has so wondrously and destructively marveled the human mind and body throughout the centuries. From out of the dark depths of th ...

... ticketing. The most common uses of today are: banking and retail, mo-bile communications, information technology, identity and health, park-ing, public telephony, mass transit and campus ID solutions; and areas of use increase every day. One of the most fast developing areas of use is Banking and Retail. For business of financial transactions is very competitive and fast-changing, banks are always seeking for new valuable services for their customers. give an ability to deploy and manage multiple ap-plications on a wallet-size plastic card. Smart card technology also prom-ises to resolve the security problems t ...

... new keyboards can lead to bigger health problems that develop from continuous typing. Third, and most importantly, standardization has led the qwerty keyboards to firmly hold the position as the keyboard. There are major differences between the two types of keyboard users; the regular users and the other typists. The regular users are people who uses the keyboard for word processing, e-mailing, and internet; there is not much of a need for them to type extremely fast. They do not type mechanically but rather based on their thought, and thinking takes time. In other words, faster keyboards are irrelevant for th ...

... sex and computers seems to make children and adults for that matter, a little crazy. In an 18 month study, the team surveyed 917,840 sexually explicit pictures on the internet where pornographic. Trading in explicit imagery is now "one of thelargest recreational applications of users of computer networks." The great majority (71%) of the sexual images on the newsgrouls originate from adult oriented bulletin-board systems (BBS). According to BBS, 98.9% of the consumers of online porn are men. The women hold a 1.1% in chat rooms and on Bulletin boards. Perhaps because hard-core sex pictures are so widely available ...

... place tracks very close together, and the size of the track we use is dependent only on one thing - the color of the light we use. An optical medium typically involves some sort of laser, for laser light does not diverge, so we can pinpoint it to a specific place on the disk. By moving the laser a little bit, we can change tracks on a disk, and this movement is very small, usually less than a hairÕs width. This allows one to store an immense amount of data on one disk. The light does not touch the disk surface, thereby not creating friction, which leads to wear, so the life of an average optical disk is fa ...

... him adequate protection against fragments from artillery shells, mortar shells, and anti-aircraft shells. They could not stop armor piercing bullets however. In the 1960's new types of vests were developed whose plates were made of composite layers of steel or a very hard ceramic, boron carbide. However, the discovery that numerous layers of nylon fabric could dissipate the energy of the bullet revolutionized the use of modern body armor. The function of steel or hard plastic armor is to be impervious to a bullet. The function of ceramic armor is to slow the bullet abruptly by the hardness of ...

... valuable if used as a tool for learning. In the group Families Against Censorship, they understand the concept of parental filtering (Censorship 2000). One of the families uses primarily the to home-school their children. When a child signs on to the web, he or she has almost infinite resources right at the ends of their fingertips. Where else can you maximize the worlds resources from inside the comforts of home. I know that a young teenager can productively use this information. I have been using the net for about eight years for my reports and personal knowledge quests. My father would check on me every now ...

... are 24 GPS satellites in orbiting the world at 11,000 nautical miles above the Earth. They are continuously monitored by ground stations located worldwide. They transmit signals that can be detected by anyone with a GPS receiver. Using the receiver, you can determine your location with great precision. GPS is one of history's most exciting and revolutionary developments, and new uses for it are constantly being discovered. But before I go any farther it's important to understand a bit more about navigation. Since prehistoric times, people have been trying to figure out a reliable way to tell where they are, ...

... for every conceivable type of computer. Internet uses started out with big companies, then to the government, to the universities and so on. The World Wide Web or WWW, is an information service that is on . The WWW is based on technology called hypertext, and was developed for physicist so they could send and retrieve information more easily. The WWW basically is a tool for exploring or surfing . The WWW is an attempt to organize so you can find information easier moving threw document to document. Why do I need to know this? Well now that I got threw all the techno-babble, let's get down to it. If you know how ...

... to human interpretation with the computer. Englebart completed a study of augmentation, which he defines as using technology to assist the intellect. The came out of Engelbart's study due to the acceptability and ease of its operation. Engelbart did not officially announce his invention until 1968. After the debut of the mouse the next real step in its advancement did not come until 1970 at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Alan Day developed the first working computer that used the . While at the research center Day and other researches developed the first computer that depended on the to point. The next ...