The Net gives people easy access to newspapers in far-away cities and towns. They can also listen to local radio broadcasts in RealAudio. Expatriate Canadians living in Ohio , and Geneva, Switzerland can check up on the latest happenings in Moose Jaw and Ste-Agathe. Just five years ago, overseas subscriptions would have cost them thousands of dollars a year, and they would have been listening to crackling shortwave sets instead of clear digital sound. Only by accepting new technology can these people reap its benefits.
Computers can now make our jobs easier.
When the United States of America was founded over two hundred years ago, the original lawmakers decided that a census had to be conducted every ten years. And so it was, with the results slowly tabulated by hand. It took years, and the population was only a small fraction of what it is now. By the late 1800s, mechanical devices shortened the time required to weeks. However, only relatively simple information could be gleaned from the data collected.