Sunday, 17 January 2010

WONDERS OF THE MODERN WORLD



Over the past 100 years we have seen amazing technological and scientific achievements .These are surley our modern wonders



INTERNET



The early Internet was used by computer experts, engineers, scientists, and librarians. There was nothing friendly about it. There were no home or office personal computers in those days, and anyone who used it, whether a computer professional or an engineer or scientist or librarian, had to learn to use a very complex system.

Nowadays is everywhere .More than half billion people use it,

and number of people who are increases by 100 every year.

In 1994 there were only a few hundred web pages .Today there are a billions.

It has revolutionized the way we life and work




INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL



We are world on the move.Airlines carry more than 1.5 bilion people to their destlinations every year.It is estimated that, at any one time these days, there are as many people travelling in aeroplanes as the total number of people who travelled abroad in the whole of the nineteenth century. Mass tourism could only have developed with the improvements in technology, allowing the transport of large numbers of people in a short space of time to places of leisure interest, so that greater numbers of people could begin to enjoy the benefits of leisure time.
























SPACE TRAVEL





People dreamed of spaceflight for millennia before it became reality. Space travel didn't become possible until the advances of the 20th century provided the actual means of rocket propulsion, guidance, and control for space vehicles.

.In 1969 Neil Armstrong stepped out of his space capsule onto the surface of the moon and made his famous statement.. Since than ,there have been space probes to mars,Saturn,Jupiter.So far , it seems that we are not alone in the unverse.There are no sings yet that is intelligent life outside our solar system.But who knows what the future holds ?













MEDICINE SCIENCE


Surley nothing has done more for the comfort nad happyiness of human race than the advancs in health care!

How many people millions of people heve benefited from the humble aspirin?How many lives has penicillian saved?Average life expectancy worldwide has risen dramatically over the past 100 years, from about 47 years in 1900 to about 77 years today.


What is the greates wonder of modern world???What do you think?


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