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Feature Article of Monday, 4 April 2011

Columnist: Awuah, Lawrence
Current Impact of Information Technology and Future Implications

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Lawrence Awuah

ljawuah@ieee.org

Ashburn, Virginia

Introduction: Technology has come to stay with us with accompanying ramifications and mixed blessings. The influence of current and future Information Technology and their applications is beyond human imaginations. How pervasive or beneficial is information systems and technology? Well, this is a question worth discussing. Throughout my secondary education in my beloved country—Ghana—I never had the chance to practically see, touch, or work with computers until my first year in a college; however, the good thing was that I was literate enough to read and understand some basic computer technologies. My first experience with computer occurred during my first year as an electrical engineering student at School of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science &


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