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EDITORIAL WORK IN PROGESS 
In the year 2000, some of the latest 'must have' machines included personal computers, mobile phones, digital cameras, DVDs, CDs.
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| The "Digital Revolution" The world was changing fast. People had barely got used to being able to casually phone or fax abroad when mobile phones and computers came along. Most people got their first mobile phone around 2000, killing off grubby public phone boxes, and beginning the art of text messages. People also bought computers, but they didn't always know what to do with them at first. They instantly replaced typewriters for writing letters, but they also had this new thing called email. Then there was the internet. It was really complicated, slow, and didn't have much useful on it in the early days, but oh! How quickly that changed! But now that everyone had computers, the digital revolution could begin: - Computers replaced paperwork, which made information much quicker to organise, share and analyse. - Digital photos replaced expensive film cameras. No longer did the film need to be sent to a lab, as digital pictures came to life in the computer. - Digital DVDs and CDs offered better quality and smaller size than vinyl records, cassettes and VHS tapes, and they too became connected to the computer. Everything became linked to computers in the home, and to all the other computers in the world through the internet. We are still discovering many new ways that | ||
| When I am older, maybe there will be... cars that drive by themselves, better medicines, robots in every home, flying cars, batteries that never run out. | ||
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