Invention of the computer has changed our understanding of cultures around the world?
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Before computers came information on many subjects were not readily available to all people equally.\nNow sites like wikipedia give full information on most of the topics\nYou are able to clear your doubt and get guidance from many people in yahoo answers.\nMan has always been curious to know how people lived in other parts of the world. People like Columbus, Marco polo and Vascode gama had to travel for years to get information/find what they were looking for. Now from your home you can wander ac cross the globe and over the space or under the sea to know what is happening there.\nAll these factors have changed the world as more and more people become computer users.
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compared to a century ago?  yes, I think there has been a significant change to educational learning. Look at elementary school.  They had books. Good things those books. But they only had that, eachother, and the teacher.  Now we have books, computers, voice books, television, teachers and they had each other.  Another major learning environment for the very young is the gym. Today, Physical fitness among 3rd graders is very different from a century ago.  Now we have small bikes, a variety of balls for a cheap and inexpensive price, and other odd stuff.  \nNow if I interpreted your question to, does technology impact educational learning, or does technology impact the way a child learns, the actual brain mechanics? Why?\nThe answer would be similar.  Yes ways of learning have arrived and changed since a century ago.  But for a child, how variable is learning?  One child growing up in the city of New York might go through the same phases as a child growing up in Africa, but different skills would be emphasized.
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well technology  didnt just happen over 100 years. We had a lil help. We went from having hardly crap and now computers,cell phones, and that damn tv. making people lazier then hell. right now there working on developing a chip that they plant into ur brain thats somthing like the internet. Where u can chat wit other people just by thinkin about it and even listening to music (also makes it easier for the government to keep track of everybody). thats going to make people fatter then hell. Everybody will just stay at home and do nothing all day long. And a benefit of all this technology is that we hardly have to lift a finger anymore.
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invented by a guy from texas instruments in the mid 1970's.\n\nThe first computer was made in the late 1600's. It was a big machine made from brass gears and valves and could perform mathematcal integration. Hardly worthy of UFO conspiracy theory\n\nThere hasn't been a fundamental change in computers for about 20 years, when the last logic gate was invented.\n\nAll changes have been in materials technology and manufacturing processes
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Our technology and communications is changing at a rapid rate.\n\nThink about the fact that when I was 3 years old, we had a black and white TV, a rotary dial telephone, a washing machine, an oven and a refrigerator.  We had a car and a truck.  I grew up on a farm.\n\nMy grandparents did not have TV, they had radio.  They had no cars.  \n\nMy first grade teacher graduated college - called normal school - in 1919.  Her father made saddles for a living.  When she started teaching, there were only a few cars on the road.\n\nOur society is changing because we are changing.  How many people do you know who make their living on a farm?\n\nIn 1996 how many people had personal computers?  How many people do not have them now?  Ten years ago, a computer was not a necessity in a home.  We haven't even touched on TV, satellites, and all of the choices available in how we use them.
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Yes, mankind has become far too dependent on technology, if we lost all of our technology tomorrow, I am convinced that only myself and few friends I know have the skills to survive without what we take for granted today. For me, computers are fun, like this answering stuff, but I sure don't base my life on it...its a dangerously fragile world we live in. Mankind survived far longer without all of the crap we have today, but most of have lost the basic survival skills that used to come naturally to us.
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According to an article in Life magazine, yes.  As we are becoming a world of easier communication and safer transportation, we'll eventually become a more unified one colored world.\n\nThis won't be for another 1000+ years however.\nAsian culture will become a broad mix of white, black, and some hispanic.  The dominant features though will be Asian.
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They are GOING to be?  You may have missed the boat, but computers are absolutely an essential part of our society.
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Well! according to me the role of US in the modern society has changed from the past. Previously t used to be known as the nation which could take the World to the next level of technology science. But now it is trying to dominate countries and make them obey its orders or face the consequences.
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evolution...in some parts of the world, maybe not in Asia, but some people are just getting out of the ape stage, and are now starting to use tools.  In Asia however they are a little more advanced, in small pockets of japan for example, some people have already developed appendages on there bodies such as palm pilots, and cell phones, thus making there dependency on separate electronics less, and making them far more advanced in the natural selection.
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I agree with all the report except the vedec, I really say that it\n  was in this time, and dimension that there were tremendous\n  divinities, and perhaps education was beamed like a voice of\n  God onto the world, thus being the invention due to mass\n  input into the human learning throughout histories.  The decimal\n  as we know of it is thought to be pre-civilization and I say that\n   VH1, VH2, and long lost TT1 A disco spinner station not unlike\n   the babylons used decimals to show a mixed character \n  language to identify, categorize, and catalog beamed to heaven.
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the computer becomes enlightened
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I am pretty sure it is the ease of which a culture trait or technology can move from one culture to another, and the "worth" of the transfer, if the cost of bringing this technology is worth the effect it will have on the culture.
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Positive impacts:\n\n* Computers enhance the learning experience (Presentations, Animations. E-learning, Lecture podcasting...)\n\n* Computers entertain us: games, breathtaking special effects in movies, better animations...\n\n* The modern generation is aware about the issues related to the "rest of the world" through computers\n\n* Computers help the modern generation to share their knowledge and views with others (blogs, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers)\n\n\nNegative Impacts\n\n* Many youngsters have become porn-freaks\n\n* Many youngsters get addicted to there computers - they stay inside and do not indulge in healthy outdoor activities, interaction with friends etc\n\n* Many feel that computers have made us a little lazy
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People generally sit alone in front of the computer, reading or playing games (or asking/answering questions!).  Before there were computers, people were more likely to be with their family or friends.  Even with television, it was more of a social activity.  On the other hand, the computer has made it possible to meet people you might never have met otherwise (though that can be a good thing or a bad thing).  Good thing:  I met my husband through an online community.  Bad thing:  There was that guy in Germany who killed and ate someone he met online.  It's an extreme example, but it's true that there are a lot of twisted people out there.
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Babbage's machine was really a difference engine.\nThe fist electronic computer was build in Britain by the Post Office Research Branch in 1943.
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He made inventions that changed the world.