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June 11, 2003 Words are vehicles for knowledge. We use them everyday to communicate and express our opinions on a vast array of topics and values in this ever shrinking global world of the information age. Yet words have a life all their own. They can effect everything we say and do. Words are like liquid light filled with the potential to be used for good or evil. Words are conceived in the heart, transmitted to the brain and expressed with our tongue. Ask any writer what is the most necessary desire in life and they will say to convey a message to the world around them. Without words writers would never exist. Nor editors, politicans, preachers and teachers for that matter. The publishing and communications industry - newspapers, magazines, books, cell phones, laptops, PC's, radio, television, movies, advertising, CD's, the internet would be never be a reality without these powerful containers called words. Without words all of our scientific and medical discoveries, our history, educational institutions, political theories, government, our religions would not be known. Do we ever really consider what mankind has been able to accomplish and create with words from paper and ink? No, but be take this priviledge for granted. Wouldn't it be a terrible thing to be able to conceive thoughts and imagine new concepts and ideas without having a way to reveal this knowledge to others? It would be like living inside a balloon with no way of escape. As we have seen the language of words play an essential part in today's society and the way we communicate, educate, work and inform. These nowns, verbs and adjectives have made the information age into what we are as a people, a society and a planet. Education was once only for the rich, the priviledged and the gifted but now the majority of mankind can also be a part of this library of words through the latest technology whether it is online education, e- books or e-mail. If we do continue to survive as a planet we will need words to communicate and educate the masses of humanity if we are to have lasting peace in our world. Earth as we know it has certainly changed since God first created it with the power of his words in the book of Gensis. Since Adam, till now we have had a need and a desire to express ourselves whether we are a monk from China, a fisherman from Canada or a politican from England. Today at the click of a mouse or the touch of a computer keyboard we are using words in ways that would shock our ancestors one hundred years ago. Yet in most countries today children have more access to words and information than children even twenty years ago did. The information age of computer technology has taken words to a higher level than ever before. We now have the ability with lightning speed to send a letter by e-mail to a friend across the world in a matter of seconds not weeks and months as was the case of boats crossing the Atlantic years ago. It is amazing how technology and words have united our world into a place of instant information. Even the way we do business and invest has drasticly changed in this free market society. Now you simply have to go online to communicate with your broker or business associate in Hong Kong, while you live in a flat in London, England. Now you can follow the stockmarket online and by or sell your investments at the touch of a button instantaneously. Business communication is exploding at a phenomimal rate as more and more businesses rely on the internet and company websites created with words, to sell their lines of products. Now you can manufacture a product in Houston, Texas and have a buyer ordering the same product online in Leningrad, Russia, minutes later. If their is a problem with a product instead of phoning you simply send an e-mail to find a solution. Vacations, airflights, rental cars and hotel rooms can now be purchased online through hundreds of websites, saving you time, costly phone calls and stress. Travel is not what it used to be because the internet has simplified your vacation plans. Gone is the anxiety of checking dozens of brochures. Instead just go on any engine search. Words are powerful tools in this high tech age of information that we are living in. If you have been considering in taking a step of faith into the world of words and computer technology now is the time to do it. For you are never to old to explore and discover new worlds at your finger tips through the written word online. ------------ Stephen Winter resides in Halton Hills, Ontario in Canada. He specializes in nonfiction writing. Email Stephen: shortwave1@yahoo.com ------------ |
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