Conclusion Now that you have completed a Computer Exploration using the Web, your research should have given you a better understanding of why computers are an integral part of our world today. Through the journey you were able to learn about many of the historical contributions that were made to the development of the computer. You also should have discovered how a computer’s components, hardware and software are important with making a computer system operate. You researched computer careers and investigated the future outlook for computers. And finally, you shared your computer research with classmates. Hopefully the Computer Exploration helped to reinforce that computers are very important tools in our world today. Without them our lives would be very different. Remember, computer technology changes at a very rapid rate, therefore one must continue to learn how to manage these machines so that one doesn’t become enslaved to them!