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Jennifer Story-Salacup- by Jennifer Story-Salacup With a majority of world typing on computers to communicate, it has become the fastest and easiest way in which to trade information. This has led to and exchange of thoughts and ideas with others that has allowed multiple people to build upon the same idea from different parts of the world. While many feel that the computer has been beneficial to progress we have yet to see what the effects are going to be on the history that will be constructed from bits and pieces that were saved. Since its inception the Internet has made it easier for people to communicate across broad distances. People no longer need to sit down and write a letter to their boss, family, and friends. You can now send e-mails and within a couple of minutes you can have a response to the e-mail. It has made communicating faster and easier than waiting for the mail. Users from different continents can communicate in real-time without having to pick up a phone. People with language barriers can correspond through the internet with computer translators. When you look at the history of certain events, you may find that there isn't a lot of information because it is usually deleted by the receiver and no one bothered to save the information. This has happened and is continuing to happen. Unless someone takes the time to compile information from wars and daily life, it will just be a bunch of information floating on the world wide web. The government is already running into this problem concerning national affairs. Sensitive information is not date stamped and users with vital information will not put the date on these items. It has become a problem if we are to maintain our history. Although the Internet and e-mail have made communication easier, we have to look and see what it is doing to the history of the United States. In the 1980s memos from government officials were typed in typing pools on carbon copies. These carbon copies were then saved and put away for storage. Now a days messages are e-mailed back and forth and then deleted. Unless someone takes the time to print out theses e-mails there will not be in history in which to write from. Historians will be baffled by the information that they do manage to find. It will be a jumble of e-mails or documents with only a few snippets of information that may or may not be important. They will then have to try to sort through what they have, and figure out what was actually happening. In this way they would be more apt to make a mistake about the true events that happened in history. The history of the United States can be preserved by taking the time to save and print any pertinent government documents. In this way we can be assured that the story told from these documents is the truth. The computer, internet, and e-mail are leading the way in which the world communicates and with careful documentation we can preserve history. References: | Directron.com College Scholarship | Related Items: | Chris Covington | Cirrus Foroughi | Jack Salamanchuk | Jennifer Furtado | Jie Li | Maria Khan | Paul Frederick | Shawna Harpole | Steven Li | Veronica Muo | |
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