Okoye Ratliff
4/29/2014
University Life
RL. Coleman

Technology makes communication easier in today’s world. Many people choose to work at home in front of a computer screen. What danger does society face depending on computer screens rather than face-to-face contact as the main means of communication? Are we the prisoners of the progress.
Technology has come a long way since the first advancements of the first super computer prototype. Since then computers have effectively become more and more helpful as the times have passed. Today a computer is one of the most if not most important piece of technology in any household, business, company, school, or office. Computers limit the need for excessive acts to handle matters such as sending documents very long distances, talking to loved ones miles away, working, managing finances and saving money, learning information and much more. Having unlimited ways of making life easier naturally will manifest problem or forms of weaknesses from people that try to use this tool for wrong doing and scams and purposes other than helping people. Computers have draw backs that can cause unwanted expenses. If computers are the main source of how a someone handles and conducts business such as a company that depends on computers too heavily can be susceptible to stolen information at the hands of hackers, viruses, Trojans, and any other ways to steal information that can cause a company or business millions in damage cost or even ruin in expenses altogether. Dangers can also come from a system malfunction or breakdown in any case can cause a standstill which can cause even more expenses even permanent data loss in which is vital to a company’s productivity in both the company as a whole and its employees who may have to suffer the consequences as a result of the meltdown.
There are also other problems that can plague a company