Networking
The advent of the Internet, wireless and satellite communication and both computing hardware and software improvements continue to make our world a very small place. Ever since these combined methodologies have allowed us to integrate single or 'dumb' computer terminals that once only accepted data from large mainframes, computer networking has become an integral part of our everyday professional and personal lives. Even the most basic networking infrastructure today can contain an extremely large number of individual nodes that are far more powerful than even the most dominant mainframe of just a few decades ago. This new found networking muscle provides anyone and everyone access to an infinite and global spectrum of information in seconds.
We can look at any business entity and see change: Consider the banking industry. A typical day entails large international banks literally moving trillions of dollars around the globe in seconds while at the same time a typical person can log on to one of those same international banks to use a 'bill pay' service to pay a home's utility bill. The beauty of these vast networks used by both business and individuals is that no one has to know how the networks work to use them. How many kids today, even those failing English or Math, use the text feature of their cell phone network to communicate with their parents who have their business Blackberry?
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