Long before electronic devices and gadgets were invented, it has been predicted by great scientists like Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Rene Descartes that these will flood the coming centuries and such will dominate the economic systems.
The centuries have come.
The computer and internet age has come. We are the most lucky to experience, enjoy and utilize its purposes.
At first sight, computers bring awe to the eyes and delight to the heart. Owning one in the Philippine society means you are above the poverty line. It automatically qualifies you to the middle or elite class. Hence, owning computers and similar electronic gadgets goes along with your personal reputation. More so if you are able to afford monthly fees for internet access. It is one defining idea for common Filipinos that you are "may kaya" or can afford. It means more opportunities, more friends, more creditors, more money, more and more. Well I am one of the fortunate to own one.
My youngest brother Eliazar always makes my mother shriek and threat him with foul words only to stop him from playing computer games. Online or offline, computer games are literally addicting. My brother is only one of the millions living proof that computer gaming is unstoppable once you get hooked to it.
Of course, computers are most beneficial in our society today. Government offices cannot function without them. Some train systems are computerized now. Traffic lights run by computer. Communication devises and gadgets are all computerized. Computer gaming business establishments are in boom. The digital computer age has changed the way we process our papers, bank accounts, property settlements, communication, even our personal relationships with family and love ones are directly affected. We are most lucky.
In each coin, there are two faces. Well, sad to say, it's alarming how computer problems are affecting its users too. More so with internet problems. Pornography comes in handy. Libel too. Copyright infringement. Students are more than happy to make assignments and projects with so much ease. We are getting lazy. Kids play computer games more than they play outdoors with kids their age. It's a total change in the way the children are growing up. In a number of clicks you are always done working research and you can spend more time playing Special Force, Flyff, RF, Caizer Ran, Left Four Dead, Plants Versus Zombie, Flat Out, Monster Truck and NBA. Me, I'm playing Pet Society in Facebook and MoshiMonster. Haha! What a fun bathing my baby bear! What a joy having caught a lovely moshling! What costs me now is the electric bill. The bill eventually rise up when I own a computer. And when I say rise up, it's a triple. Geez. Thanks to my father's pension.
Computers are still computers - made by man. Since it is man-made, only man can define, distinguish, alter, prioritize, maximize and value its uses. What are computers for?
As time goes on, more developed, smaller and user-friendly computers have become. Before it was a size of a building with a few functions. Then a desktop. Then a laptop. Here comes the notebook. Come to me wallet sized. Hey, I better get one wallet sized when these are available in the market. I better start earning and saving. For the smaller and better the computers become, the more they become costly.
Anyways, as everything has a purpose and meaning it's best we know that everything becomes meaningless when we don't use these things the right way.
I always smile when at the end of my day, I see that my computer will be sleeping while I sleep. I hope I rest as well as it does. Did it ever get tired? Maybe. It is just too lonely it cannot complain.
The centuries have come.
The computer and internet age has come. We are the most lucky to experience, enjoy and utilize its purposes.
At first sight, computers bring awe to the eyes and delight to the heart. Owning one in the Philippine society means you are above the poverty line. It automatically qualifies you to the middle or elite class. Hence, owning computers and similar electronic gadgets goes along with your personal reputation. More so if you are able to afford monthly fees for internet access. It is one defining idea for common Filipinos that you are "may kaya" or can afford. It means more opportunities, more friends, more creditors, more money, more and more. Well I am one of the fortunate to own one.
Of course, computers are most beneficial in our society today. Government offices cannot function without them. Some train systems are computerized now. Traffic lights run by computer. Communication devises and gadgets are all computerized. Computer gaming business establishments are in boom. The digital computer age has changed the way we process our papers, bank accounts, property settlements, communication, even our personal relationships with family and love ones are directly affected. We are most lucky.
In each coin, there are two faces. Well, sad to say, it's alarming how computer problems are affecting its users too. More so with internet problems. Pornography comes in handy. Libel too. Copyright infringement. Students are more than happy to make assignments and projects with so much ease. We are getting lazy. Kids play computer games more than they play outdoors with kids their age. It's a total change in the way the children are growing up. In a number of clicks you are always done working research and you can spend more time playing Special Force, Flyff, RF, Caizer Ran, Left Four Dead, Plants Versus Zombie, Flat Out, Monster Truck and NBA. Me, I'm playing Pet Society in Facebook and MoshiMonster. Haha! What a fun bathing my baby bear! What a joy having caught a lovely moshling! What costs me now is the electric bill. The bill eventually rise up when I own a computer. And when I say rise up, it's a triple. Geez. Thanks to my father's pension.
Computers are still computers - made by man. Since it is man-made, only man can define, distinguish, alter, prioritize, maximize and value its uses. What are computers for?
As time goes on, more developed, smaller and user-friendly computers have become. Before it was a size of a building with a few functions. Then a desktop. Then a laptop. Here comes the notebook. Come to me wallet sized. Hey, I better get one wallet sized when these are available in the market. I better start earning and saving. For the smaller and better the computers become, the more they become costly.
I always smile when at the end of my day, I see that my computer will be sleeping while I sleep. I hope I rest as well as it does. Did it ever get tired? Maybe. It is just too lonely it cannot complain.
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