Just as people and organizations in prior agricultural and industrial ages used technology in new ways to improve their productivity and quality of life, information technology is being used in the information age to improve work practices. The following links will allow you to explore where computers work:

Jones Telecommunications & Multimedia Encyclopedia Computers: History and Development.
Today computers do much more than simply compute: supermarket scanners calculate our grocery bill while keeping store inventory; computerized telephone switching centers play traffic cop to millions of calls and keep lines of communication untangled; and automatic teller machines (ATM) let us conduct banking transactions from virtually anywhere in the world.

Chemist's Art Gallery.
Spectacular visualization and animations in chemistry to help you understand how things work.

NASA Quest: Aerospace Team Online.
Aerospace Team Online will bring you into flight simulators and wind tunnels to see NASA employees doing aerodynamic design research. You will hear from the engineers, technicians, mechanics, and designers working to make tomorrow's planes safer, more efficient, quieter, and faster.

Southwest Airlines.
Make reservations and check schedules online.

Northwest Airlines.
Make reservations and check schedules online.

Computers & Medicine Online.
Online Newsletter is a quarterly online newsletter on computer applications for the medical profession

Family Physicians' Electronic Network.
FPEN.Org is a Web site created to facilitate communication among family physicians and other primary health care providers in order to help support the quality of care we provide to the community, especially the rural community.

Computers in Cardiology.
Computers in Cardiology, Inc., is an international organization of scientists and professionals from the fields of medicine, physics, engineering, and computer science.

PowerProduction Software.
Storyboarding and other postproduction tasks for film and television use computers.

Walt Disney Art Classics.
Disney animation has long used computer technology.