2003 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Computers and the Environment—An Introduction to Understanding and Managing their Impacts
Authors : Ruediger Kuehr, German T. Velasquez, Eric Williams
Published in: Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing their Impacts
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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In just two decades, personal computers (PCs) have become ubiquitous in the homes and offices of the industrialized world. Manufacturing, sales, management, medicine, etc.,—all depend on computers now to function efficiently. E-mail has become indispensable in our day-to-day communications with family members, friends, and colleagues. It is now hard to imagine life (in rich countries) without computers in one form or other. Despite the rise of a variety of new devices to deliver information services, such as the Internet-capable cell phone, there is no obvious substitute on the horizon for the key features of a PC: large display, input keyboard, and personal information processing and storage capability.