Welcome to the Information Age!In today’s global community, each and every citizen of the world is connected by bandwidth and a simple personal computer. At any given time I can access information on nearly an infinite amount of subjects ranging from the complex to the absurd. I can communicate instantaneously with 1 or 1000 people at once, from as near as the next room to as far as Beijing. This is the new frontier: complete access to the world and everything in it from the easy chair in my den…in my pajamas.
However, navigating this massive index of information is the tricky part. You have to know what exactly it is you are searching for and how to manipulate the tools that will extract the information for you. The computer is an exacting mistress and we mere mortals tend to be a rather vague bunch. For those of you who have ever said or heard someone else say, “You know that thing, that thing with the guy who was like, you know, tall…” then you know what I’m talking about. It can be a frustrating experience trying to translate obtuse human thought into acute computer language.
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