In today’s modern world there is an ever increasing dependency on technology, particularly computing and the internet, both at home and in business.
This dependency has grown exponentially in recent years with the wide scale popularity of mobile internet devices and the growth of online banking, e-commerce and cloud computing. These mobile internet devices and online services have become so ingrained in society that the younger generation finds it hard to imagine how we operated before these technologies were available.
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