Systems using computers as components include human beings accessing information in digital-storage form. Computer software, hardware, and networks together are referred to below as Information Technology or simply IT.

The fundamental challenge today and in the future is to make Information Technology clear to the greatest number. That means creating paths from straight use of an application (say word processing as an extended form of typewriting) to accessing other tools and understanding what can be done with digital systems.

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Where government-funded research has succeeded in stimulating innovation, it has enabled new infrastructure (the internet). Where individual efforts and corporate competition has succeeded there are new traditions, tools, and utilities (electronic mail, linux, personal digital assistants, handheld devices, instant messaging, and computer-based games).

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