Glenn Ong s.k
1D, 2D, 3C.
Just a kid who's extremely into aerospace and funs!
Lives in a world of aerospace.
Age:15+
D.O.B:21 May 1993
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
woooooo! Debate's finally over!... ...it was such a great expericence AND stressful! My orginal word count was about 1200++ words and I minimised it to just 750++ words as time given was only 3 mins...=.=! 4 mins would be great instead^^here's what I presented as speaker 2...
Now that my first speaker has elaborated our main argument let me expand on our second point, which is about how computers have improved our economy.
Currently the economies of all major power houses rely on computers in one way or another in banks, businesses and most importantly the stock markets. Computers benefit the economy numerous ways but today I shall expand on two, namely, how they propel the economy and increase productivity.
Computer technology is one of the mainstays of analyses of a new economy. One of the key channels through which computers affect the economy is business investment in computing equipment. Joseph H. Haimowitz writes in the second quarter 1998 Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review, "By all accounts, computers appear to be rapidly changing the way many of us conduct business, recreate, and communicate."
The market for computer products is a multi-billion dollar business where one can find a perfect balance of technology and effectively. In the world today, computers are used for a variety of tasks and play a crucial role in the areas of academics and economy.
Raging from devices that play a major part in our everyday lives such as cash registers, banking, to stock markets, these work are being done are a much faster rate and accuracy than man can achieve.
Besides this, computers also made work more productive since documents can be created and edited at the wink of an eye. Meetings can be carried out thru web cam by people from opposite sides of the world, emails and fax sends documents at a click of a computer, people can find numerous articles and statistics on the internet by a click of the button the possibilities are really endless.
Though computers replace mankind in many areas, computers have also created a large field with plenty of job opportunities from simple task like operating machinery to mechanics. Eight of the fastest growing occupation between now and 2010 will be computer related, according to new projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics. The figure of computer related jobs create is expected to double from the current 380,000 to 760,000 by 2010. Not just creating more job opportunities, but also increasing standard of living and efficiency, and in some areas (manual work), it also increases the work safety factor.
Ladies and gentlemen isn’t it obvious enough that computers boost and create a driving force in our economy increasing productivity and revenue?
Moving on to education via computers, there are some key major advantages to online education, including the ability to set your own study time. There are dozens of reasons to go back to school but there are also dozens of reasons not to. You may be looking for a promotion or career change that requires additional training or you may simply be ready to learn something new. But with today’s busy lifestyle, there's little time to devote to regularly scheduled class time. That's where online education can be a great asset.
The fact that you have no location requirements and can actually work on your online education from anywhere is another great advantage. No matter what your time requirements or restrictions, you'll find that you can easily make your online education a reality.
Project laptop pilot, also known as one laptop per child, is an ambitious project that deployed more than 100,000 of laptops throughout Brazil, Maine and Cambodia. Allowing children to explore, create, and share ideas via laptops and participate actively in their own learning. The project also revolutionize in the way whereby computers educate the world’s children as nearly two–billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. One in three does not complete the fifth grade.
The individual and societal consequences of this chronic global crisis are profound. Children are consigned to poverty and isolation—just like their parents—never knowing what the light of learning could mean in their lives. At the same time, their governments struggle to compete in a rapidly evolving, global information economy, hobbled by a vast and increasingly urban underclass that cannot support itself, much less contribute to the commonweal, because it lacks the tools to do so.
Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, computers have not only reached out to the economy but also allow children from poor countries to be able to learn. Childrens in provertise countries have no means of affording library books much less teachers. But, low cost rugged computers are the only way for these children to gain an education.
Moving on to the individual impact that computers have provided us with is the internet. Computers have facilitated our lives in more ways then one but a more prominent way would be by improving communication.
The internet carries various information resources and services, such as emails, online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and the interlinked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web.
Search engines like the widely know Google, has enabled us to search for resources in terms of research within seconds.
Online chats are also widely use via the internet with chat engines-for example, MSN messenger. Instant messaging has become a form of communication and to make news friends. People no longer have to wait a month to receive mail nor make a trip to the post office. Now all this can be done in a click of a button at no cost or hassle. Families can have face to face encounters by means of the webcam.
Apart from just communication on the social level, computers have changed the world into a better place for us to live in. It was stated in the Straits Times on the 15 of Aug that charitable organisations are no longer using stickers and pens as incentives for donation. Charitable organisations are now turning to the internet where money spent on virtual reality games like 2nd life is being contributed to charities.
In conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, computers bring about a world of good be it in the economy, education or communication and by far are here to stay.
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