A Digital Nation :: Internet Technology Technological Essays

A Digital Nation Have you ever heard person say that we live in a digital nation? Do you know what a digital nation is? Well you should know because you are life in one. Our nation revolves around the use of computers. Can you go through a normal day without using something computer related? I dont consider so. Many everyday things that you take for granted are computer based, such as ATMs, credit cards, grocery check outs, and gas stations to name a few. I support Jon Katzs article The Netizen Birth of a Digital Nation. Our nation would be a totally different place today if the computer was neer invented. Computers have evolved incredibly in the past few years. Programs on computers help to make schools more organized and are used many times a day. Today most of the students records are kept on a computer instead of in filing cabinets. Such as records of shots, attendance, grades, test scores, any problems the nipper has, and many others. With computers you can pull up a childs file within seconds instead of having to find the file in a cabinet, which could take several minutes. Computers throttle all the files organized and make finding things easier for teachers, which helps them to describe more things done in their busy day. Many teachers when assigning document require them to be typed. Typed written document are a lot easier to read then hand written ones. Having a typed paper cuts down on the time needed to grade the papers and makes reading them a lot easier. Before computers, the time teachers needed to grade twenty papers was maybe four hours and now they can grade them in about two hours. Computers allow us to communicate with people all over the world. Thanks to the mesh you can talk with people from other counties and get a response within a few seconds. Instead if you had written a letter you might not get a response for weeks. The Internet also allows people who dont know each other to meet and become friends. Being able to connect to t he Internet allows families to stay in touch up to now though they live thousands of miles away. The capabilities of being online makes things so much easier and faster, which we need, in order to keep up with the fast paced world we live in.