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Technological and Internet Marvels

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wealth of social, scientific, economic and political benefits, but they have also carved an entirely new path upon which humanity has only just begun to travel. II. CHANGES TO  CULTURE AND SOCIETY The extent to which technological advancement has resulted in better medical imaging is both grand and far-reaching. That procedures such as MRI, CT, bone scans, X-ray  and digital imaging are readily available speaks volumes with regard to how far the availability of detection has come. However, the advancement of medical technology would be nowhere without  computers, which have become a significant part of every aspect of life; there is no denying their very presence has drastically altered humanitys existence since the mid to late 1940s.  Through a number of technological developments, computers have not only become integral components of daily life, but they have also been successfully assimilated into medical diagnosis and treatment, with  particular emphasis upon MRI, CT, bone scans, X-ray and digital imaging. When the first magnetic resonance imaging system (MRI) was developed and then  tested in 1977, the only people who understood this monumental discovery were those directly related to the medical industry. The historic five-hour procedure rendered a single, poor quality image,  however, the efforts of Drs. Raymond Damadian, Larry Minkoff and Michael Goldsmith would inevitably improved by leaps and bound over the next thirty years. So important to the overall  curative landscape was this invention that it is now proudly displayed at the Smithsonian Institute (Gould, 2002). From that first excruciatingly long image to todays instant facsimile, the MRIs experienced  most of its metamorphosis after 1982, inasmuch as it is a "very complicated technology not well understood by many" (Gould, 2002). By design, the equipment is seven feet tall