Desktop Computers: Gathering The Worlds Data
When I was in school some years ago the only way to get information about a certain subject was to go to the library and read through stacks of books. It was time consuming because of all of the information you had to read through in order to get what you needed.
Nowadays, kids that need to collect information for school can turn on their desktop computer and search online. Within seconds hundreds of articles and documents are at their finger tips and they can start to look for specific resources.
Instead of spending hours and hours reading through pages of text books trying to find good references they can find exactly what they need in half the time. Computers are a wonderful thing.