... -minded to new ideas and different cultures. Another aspect will be the change that this technology will bring in the home. Families are already using this technology to communicate with distant relatives via email, online chat, or internet telephones. Families save on long distances calls, paper, and stamps. Of course, electronic communication is instantaneous compared to sending a form or letter through ... , remotely control lights, air conditioning, and heating in homes and automobiles. Schools will depend on digital equipment to create worldwide classrooms. Students will be able to p...

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... . I should know that because I'm online every single day, and the internet for me is not a tool, but a privilege because I use this privilege to look at my emails, to talk to distant relatives, to play my online games, to stay informed of everything going on around the world. So I think we are all affected because somehow we are all connected to it ... ...

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... another. Electronic Mail is the transmission of messages from one computer user to another. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is the agreed-upon format that allows users to move files between a distant computer and a local computer using a network like the Internet. Host is a network computer that receives data from other computers. Internet is a global information network connecting millions of computers. Local Area ... ...

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... least once a month, by so-called "crackers": growing minorities of people with nothing better to do than spoil everyone else's enjoyment. Crackers dedicate their work to purposely infect programs and distant computers that access the internet. In July 1997, successfully capturing and distributing credit card numbers of NBA and ESPN users, crackers achieved the first widely known attack on internet credit ... ...

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... "work" on themselves. They use the telecommunication devices to coordinate activities ranging from after school baseball to weddings. They create networks of connectedness by making and sending videotapes and E-mailing distant relatives. Family histories are recorded and distributed. Cell phones and pagers create a sense of street safety. One woman used the LCD information on her husband's pager to discover an infidelity ... ...

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... down the street. Three blocks away, a retired librarian is spending yet another day alone. Most of her friends have moved or stopped calling. She finds herself writing endless letters to distant relatives. Many go unanswered, but they fill the time. Loneliness gnaws at those who are isolated, bored or alienated. For adults alike, the internet offers "relationships [that] can range from ... ...

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... to install a special modem that separates high speed data from telephone signals. A limitation in the DSL systems is that the degradation of the signal makes the subscribers that are more distant from the central office that is delivering the signal unable to get DSL. A great advantage, however, is the dedicated connection the subscriber uses. Unlike cable, no other users share the ... ...

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... underground which is responsible for corroding our world from the inside out. Not many people realize the extent to which the underground world operates. "The everyday life of prostitution is distant from most of us. And here, our imagination is a poor assistant. Negotiate a price with a stranger. Agree. Pull down one pant leg. Come and take me. Finished. Next, please. It becomes ... ...

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