Part one of term paper
Joe the mailman will no longer be coming to your door. You won't have to go pick up your newspaper in the bushes at 6:00am anymore. Libraries will be a thing of the past. Why is this all happening? Welcome to the information age. "You've got mail!" is the sound most people are listening to. No more licking stamps, just click on the "send" ico ...

Part two of term paper
... sounds fascinating, but will it benefit more than it will hurt? Think about my opening sentence, catchy right? Well, think about it again. What is going to happen to good 'ole Joe? And those nice librarians, what about them? Will they be out of a job? Will they be forced to operate computers that are foreign to them? How do we as a society adjust to technological change? The answer lies in society's ability to effectively measure the costs and benefits of technological change. The rapid growth o ...