How Computers Effect Everyday Life: Our lives have been permanently altered due to technology, especially computers. Everything we do revolve around computers. Our assignments for class are required to be typed whereas in the past they could have been hand written. Instead of people talking to their neighbours in person or even over the phone, they now can talk to them through instant message and ICQ. They can even make phone calls from the computer instead of the telephone. Although there is a lot less actual interaction between people because of computers, they are not all bad. They allow people to talk to friends and family that are far away without having to pay the long distance phone bill. Computers also make our lives easier. In the past, grocery store cashiers had to memorize all of the prices for the products in their store. Today, the register is computerized and programmed to know the price by reading the bar code. It would be impossible for anyone to know the price of......
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