Computer Confluence: Exploring Tomorrow's Technology

A union of three media resources, offering a textbook, CD-ROM and website. The text goes beyond explaining computer concepts and explores the promise and problems of information technology, how it affects people in society and the future. It offers a quick guide to designing a web page, taking introductory students step-by-step through the process of creating and designing web pages. New to this edition are boxed features based on articles from newspapers and magazines which explore controversial, ethical and social issues related to the growth of information technology, this includes the Internet and Internet service providers, intranets and extranets, push and pull technology, dynamic HTML, Internet security, Java, emerging multimedia technology, Windows 98 and Office 97.