CMPUTERS 2

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Many people feel that computers have been the biggest change in human life
in recent decades. I think so too. So how affected the world we live in?
I think there are three main changes.
One of the biggest change computers have made about our life is that rerated to the use of email. Email and the Internet have dramtically changed our communication during the last 1dcades.At first, email is much faster than usual mail. My letter from Japan used to take one week to reach a friend in America.The friend's response would take the same time to reach me. Now my email will reach the account of my friendin America in a matter of seconds.I often receive her response the next day. I can also send a large amount of document by email as an attached file.The file can be easily edited and reused, because it is digitalized.

The second change is the Internet has had a great influence on other aspects of our life. It changed our way of shopping. American books and other commodities used to be expensive here and limited in variety.Now on the Internet we can buy many books available in America, some books at discount prices. We can also buy many kinds of American medicines which are not available in Japan. Some medicines are several times as cheap as in Japan, and they cost less even if we include the shipping cost.The Internet also has made it easier to get many kinds of imformation.Now it is possible to know on the Internet, for instance, which train I should take at a certain station in order to reach another station on a different line by a certain time.

The third change is the skill of the word processer and memory system.
Especially editing documents has been made easier by cut and paste.Writing a good raport used to require a detailed outline before starting to write,because it was not easy to make changes after writing. Now we can begin by anywhere we want and can work on different parts at the same as our ideas come up to our mind. We can edit as we work. If we need, we can open different files, and refer to or copy parts in different files. Also we can use dictiomaries and spell checkers on computers.

So the computers have been huge change in our life.