2. What are Emerging Technologies? Emerging technologies is a general term used to denote significant technological developments that in effect, broach new territory in some significant way in their field. Examples of currently emerging technologies include robotics and artificial intelligence. O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2008
10. These networks are transforming the ways in which people interact, collaborate, and communicate with each other challenging social, political, cultural, and economic institutions and policies Millions of computers all over the world are now joined together as networks
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12. The computer can do this because the information is taken from the rich world we experience through our senses and reduces it to its most elemental form, patterns of digital pulses which are really zeros and ones.