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Transformation Tool Known as the Internet

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technologies that directly facilitate creations, organizations and transactions within our current global structure. Alvin Toffler (1981), in his book, The Third Wave calls this "dawn of a new civilization"  as the "single most explosive fact in our lifetimes." The Third Wave In an exuberant style, Toffler continues: "It is an event as profound as that First Wave of  change, unleashed ten thousand years ago by the invention of agriculture, or the earth shattering Second Wave of change touched off by the industrial revolution. We are the children  of the next transformation, the Third Wave." E-Communication Real-time communication channels such as buddy lists, instant messaging, text chat and audio/video streaming, as well as virtual communities, and non real-time  channels such as e-mail, newsgroups and shared spaces now exist for personal communication alone. Virtual museums and virtual business welcome the internet traveler. Buddy lists are currently  the most popular communication application for conversation in real time. Now you may be asked for your email address, before you are asked for your telephone number. Buddy lists  currently only function when a user is on the same service, such as aol.com or hotmail.com. Instant messaging and text chat are the same idea on different services, and are  done in real time (Dreke ppg). Computer users have gone form being afraid thateither they, their machines or the information would self destruct at any whimsical moment, to being  confident with their skills. Industry on the other hand, has made "user friendly" part of the American lexicon. Almost all software programs have built in "help" systems. These  are written for the computer-challenged, and often congratulate the user as he points to the right colored box when told to do so (Dreke ppg). Athough Tofler only alludes to