Controlled by computers
Computers seem to control our lives. It is hard to live without a computer, and no matter how hard you try to remove yourself from computers, they always affect your life. Many people think it is good that computers make things simple. "The Jetsons" was a cartoon where computers controlled the world; their maid was a robot while a computer guided the family to do simple tasks, such as showering and styling hair. It seems that the Jetsons world would be an ideal world to live in, so looking at where computers are headed today the future seems bright. Computers make it so that you can control your heat, air conditioning, pay bills, receive bills, buy groceries, listen to music and watch movies, all without leaving the comfort of your desk. But how would one get the money for this? Computers, once an expensive item, now can be attained by anyone. There are places offering free computers, computers on monthly payment plans and very cheap computers. Once you have one of these computers, you can then get a job where you work from your computer. After working your Internet job, you can deposit your paychecks directly into an Internet banking account. If you manage to save enough money, you can buy that car you have always wa
nted, but why buy the car if you never have to drive it? Some people drive places to meet people, but now it is so that you can meet someone online. To most people that conjures a picture of typing messages to someone and never meeting them face to face. Now there are camcorders you can attach to your computer and microphones so you can talk to the person in real time and see them face to face, or screen to screen. It seems that it would be dangerous to depend on a machine to control a bomb that could destroy the world, but the US uses a computer to control the "doomsday machine". There have to be codes and keys to control the machine, which are overseen by a computer, but what if the computer were to fail. Some may say that a person is much lest trustworthy and less dependable but a computer is not dependable either. On the Naval Air Station, in Fallon, Nevada, the love bug virus was downloaded unto a sailor's computer. Soon the entire base was disabled and shut down for a short while. Suppose the love bug virus had been made to shut off controls for the practice bombs dropped, an American base would be destroyed and possibly, a war would start. If all the electricity went out, the world would be destroyed, simply because computers control everything. hard to fix it, although many people went to bomb shelters on December 31, 1999. Computers are slowly starting to mask our own skills by making people rely on computers if for nothing more than time. Time is now based upon a computer. People keep time with computers. The time equation was figured out by hand before computers, but a computer confirmed i
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