Modernization of Computers

Since the first computer was made in the late fifties, the technology has developed extremely. Computers which took the place of a living-room then, are now being made in creditcard-formats. More and more areas are being taken overby the computer.As computers are capable of handling large amounts of data in a very shorttime, they are well suited for wordprocessing. I guess that it won't be longtill all the paper-archives are replaced by magnetic tapes …

…even more expensive than the hardware. Therefore it is not unusual tomake copies of these programmes. This is strictly illegal, but nobody seems tocare, because it is difficult to control it. Software producers loose BILLIONSof dollars each year because of this.Many methods have been invented to prevent this, but since the "hackers" oftenare more intelligent than those who make the software, I doubt that there will ever be a successfull way to hinder this.