The Current Status of Computers and their Future Trend

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Introduction
Computer is playing a more and more important role in our daily life. People using their computers nearly every minutes, while they are traveling on the public transports, working in their office, studying at school and entertaining at home. This article would describe the current status of computers, criticize the current status, discuss the future trends of computers and describe a few wishes of mine towards the future of computers.

Current Status of computers
1. Education
Computers have been widely used in education. First of all, computers are used for doing and handing in homework. Not only secondary school students and college students, primary school students and even kindergarten students need to do online homework or use computers to assist their study. Such a trend may due to the convenience and interactivity of computers. According to the report of Census and Statistics Department, more than 99% of interviewees aged from 10 to 24 had used personal computers and access to the Internet in the past 12 months before interviewed. It shows that computers and Internet are common and popular among the younger generation. The high penetration of computers among them would facilitate their study. For, senior students, they may use the computers and the Internet to do research and get information they want easily. For the junior students, their parents or teachers may guide them to use computers for searching information or use some interactive educational software to initiate them to learning intention.

Secondly, massive open online course has become popular. People can take up some free university courses online and may be able to get a certificate issued by that university if they can finish the course. They may ...

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...t aspects. It is believed that computers will become more user-friendly and become more powerful so that they will play a much more important role in human’s daily life.

Works Cited

1. Census and Statistics Department of HKSAR. (May 13, 2013). Usage of Personal Computers and Internet Services by Hong Kong Residents, 2000 to 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2013, from http://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/sp120.jsp?productCode=FA100109
2. David (September 13, 2008). 10 Future Trends. Retrieved November 25, 2013, from http://randomwire.com/10-future-trends/
3. Eadicicco, L. (July 30, 2013). Your Laptop in 2018: The Future of Computing. Retrieved November 24, 2013, from http://blog.laptopmag.com/laptop-2018-future-computing
4. Rampur, S. (October 29, 2010). Computers in Business. Retrieved November 25, 2013, from http://www.buzzle.com/articles/computers-in-business.html

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