Several revolutionary forces are at work in the computer technology world today. Most importantly, it is not the speed at which hardware has been improved nor software has been created, but the evolution of computer to become part of the so-called global telecommunications village.
The arrival of Internet, which serves as a convenient means of access to all computers worldwide, has opened all computer users to an unlimited wealth of information and data, and indeed a new era of information proliferation. This process will reshape human life in a way telephone did more than hundred years ago.