| Have you ever considered what our society would | | | | goes for burglar alarms for any entry into a secured |
| be like without the assistance of information | | | | property without proper passwords; the alarm |
| technology? If we go back one hundred years, would | | | | sounds and reps. quickly have law enforcements on |
| we be able to survive without computers? These | | | | the scene in a matter of minutes. Think of the elderly |
| static plastics have made such a tremendous impact | | | | who wears their "life alert' around their necks enabling |
| on our daily lives that trepidation overtakes us at the | | | | breathing problems or falls to be easily detected |
| mere thought of not having them. | | | | from the other end with just the press of a button. |
| According to Wikipedia, "When computer and | | | | Just as important, meteorologists can track storms |
| communications technologies are combined, the result | | | | and hurricanes weeks before landfall. This alerts us of |
| is information technology." We have become so | | | | the severity and the exact areas that are more likely |
| accustom to them dominating our lives, we certainly | | | | to be impacted, giving civilians ample time to prepare |
| take advantage of the fact that we do not even | | | | by storing food and water, reinforce their homes, |
| have to leave the privacy of our homes to run the | | | | and make appropriate plans for family, animals, and |
| simplest errands. No longer do we have to stand in | | | | valuable properties. Additionally, a baby's stage of |
| tedious lines to pay our bills; www. does it with a | | | | development is tracked from the time of conception |
| click. Is it time for new clothes, furniture, or a | | | | to delivery. Imagine looking into a mother's tummy |
| washing machine? No fuss. Choose the best price, | | | | seeing baby's length, weight, and heartbeat before |
| brand, or color, enter your credit card information, | | | | he/she takes flight, almost sounds farce. |
| and you are practically done. | | | | Finally, information technology has allowed law |
| See how information technology has given | | | | enforcements to minimize, solve, and even prevent |
| independence and self-esteem to the elderly and the | | | | crimes. Many rental companies, for example, have |
| physically challenged. Busy, active parents do not | | | | tracking devices on their vehicles that, with the help |
| have to go off to college and leave kids with auntie | | | | of computers, can detect their exact whereabouts if |
| or grandma. Information technology now allows them | | | | they are stolen. Missing or wanted individuals can also |
| the ability to enjoy it all; continue earning their weekly | | | | be tracked similarly, once they are on the phone for |
| monthly salary, play their roles within the family, and | | | | at least a few seconds. Detectives represent the |
| earn their degrees as the kids drift off to sleep. | | | | dead by revealing how, when, where, and by whom |
| Some individuals take it a step further by searching | | | | their lives were taken. A fingerprint or a strand of |
| for jobs and eventually working at home with the | | | | hair could be all it takes to make the dead speak and |
| help of these stationary devices. | | | | put a criminal behind bars. |
| Secondly, security and many life-saving methods | | | | Therefore, when we speak of computers and |
| have also been developed with the help of | | | | technology, we speak of their endless uses and |
| computers. Companies have installed alarm systems | | | | limitless opportunities in terms of entertainment they |
| that are attached to computers, housed at their | | | | provide, health maximized, and lives enhanced and |
| offices. The first detection of smoke or fire alerts | | | | lengthened. These machines have become family |
| the representatives at the offices, who in turn | | | | members. |
| immediately alert the fire department. The same | | | | |