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One of the most overlooked means of getting the best out of a computer is for research and putting together “cutting edge” work that can make a real difference in our lives.
Computers have come a long way since they were first thought up in the nineteen forties. Then, they were little more than adding machines, then they became storage facilities with data stored for later retrieval, but you had to go to either the same computer or one linked to the mainframe to retrieve it!
With the advent of the internet that idea was done away with and we are now only just beginning to unlock the full potential of these machines!
Research done anywhere in the world can be stored on a server and accessed by someone on the other side of the globe merely minutes after it has been stored!
Search engines have played a key role in this, people can get onto a Search Engine with only an idea of what they want and within minutes they can access so much information that traditionally it would have taken a lifetime to find!
Each one of these has dramatically increased the speed at which knowledge is growing, and as a result it is dramatically improving how we use that knowledge!
The internet, and in particular the advent and development of search engines has changed the way that we run our lives. Their impact has gone well beyond just the way that business is done, they have changed life in the twenty first century. The challenge for us is to keep up with those changes.
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