TOPIC ONE week two. Questions A and C

In my opinion, technological changes such as the replacement of Office 2003 with Office 2007 are a very consumerism-based replacement. What need will we have, as users of such programs, of buying the new one when its functions and overall purposes will be exactly the same as the old one? I think it is simply to publicize and refresh the name to users and consumers as a way of reminding them of their existence and also to sell something new for more business.

Also, new media IS a source of ‘progress’ in the sense that they enhance things we do in spheres of social activity, for example, online shopping, education using the internet such as part-time degree and A-level learning, online conference and business meetings, health advice and keep-fit programs, so may aspects of life are made accessible using the internet and its ‘progress’. It could be said that this ‘progress’ is a growth, almost, because the expansion of the internet, its functions, purposes and limits has been ‘growing and progressing’ since its first arrival to the public in the late 20^th Century.