How Computers Have Impacted Our Lives

The Education Sector

Computers have impacted education in a major way. It has made it easier for students to complete homework, projects as well as assignments in a short period of time especially on those topics that they are not familiar with. The programs of the computer also helps students to present their data in a well organized manner, for example Microsoft word, Excel and Power Point allows students to edit their findings and share it with others. Teachers also use these programs to keep class lists, registers, mark schemes etc. In addition, they can also save their students presentations. Computers help to save time and money and are very important in the educational system.

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The Business Sector

In today`s life computers have impacted many fields such as the business field. Many business organizations need computers to keep track of accounts, and other important documents. It has been noticed that business people use computers a lot both at their homes and at their working places. Special programs on computers make it easier for business personnels to make pie charts and other types of graphs that they use for presentations during business meetings. Computers enable businesses to be more efficient in thier work.

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The Entertainment Sector

Computers have significantly impacted the entertainment sector by allowing directors and producers to add animations and other effects to make theri movies more exciting and realistic. This technique has benefitted the entertainment field in a huge way since it has been noticed that most people favor science based movies. Some examples of animation movies are cartoon based such as Teen Titans, examples of special effects movies are The Hobbit and Harry Potter.

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The Medical Sector

The medical field is a very important area that computers have impacted. Scientists use computers to research on cures of diseases and developing ways in which to help people live a healthy life. If it wasn�t for computers many cures wouldn�t have been found today. Nurses use computers to keep records of patients as well as schedules of doctors along with other important information. Computers make it safer for records about a patient�s medication to be accurate and not mixed with other patients.

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Research and Science Sector

Computers have made it possible for scientists to explore places that they could not before such as the ocean floor but the areas that computers have benefitted mostly is the exploration of outer space. Computers have helped in the making of new equipment and ships that allows scientists to go into space and explore and observe with more accuracy. NASA is an organization which studies and monitors the outer space so they need machines that could provide them with accurate data. Computers also have made it possible to explain a lot of curiosities and prove what is true and what is not.

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CONTENTS

  • History of Computers
  • Multimedia
  • Computers According to Size and Capabilities
  • Characteristics of Computers that have made them so useful to us
  • Introduction to the main components that make up a computer