Computers are brilliant at processing information already on board. Typing in large chunks of information by a seven year old to make it look nice is tedious and of dubious value. . . . . . E Mail and the Internet. The integration of computing and telecommunications technologies . The reasons are simple.
E mail allows huge amounts of information to be sent and received anywhere in the world.
You can save the information onto a hard disk and this would cost about 6cents and you would have it for ever. To be able to send messages to anyone, anywhere, at almost no cost is going to revolutionise how we communicate. Because schools are getting great deals in regard to price, education is going to lead the rest of the world into the 21st century. The Internet providers and companies see schools as the vehicle for bringing this technology to the attention of the community as a whole. Schools will become information centres which their communities will operate around, casting the humble librarian into a completely new role.