According to the United States National Center for Education Statistics, 20 years ago, there were 14.1 million students in U.S colleges and universities. By 2000, there were 15.3 million, and by 2009, 18.8 million. For fall 2011, the estimated number was up by nearly a million, to a record 19.7 million students. Current research describes the greatest numbers of jobs are going either to those with a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, or to those with some standard certifications. If you would like to get a promotion, you have to have a higher degree or any standard certifications; otherwise, people will surpass you and will get your position. College is the gateway of examination, innovation, and …show more content…
As Steve Ballmer says, ‘’ the number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they did not think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.’’ Artificial intelligence is an example of modern technology and how indispensable it is in remote devices. In addition, after five years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found its artificial intelligence laboratory probes to imitate technical human minds as well as hands. Today, robots are assembling products better, faster, and often cheaper than laborers. Moreover, the Internet is the world’s number one efficient service that has made almost everything possible for people around the globe. The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link billions of devices worldwide, private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scopes, linked by wireless network, and optical networking technologies. It is the technology we use and need to learn how to use more effectively. College teaches …show more content…
Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. . . .” Thus, the world of technology has reached beyond the expectations of human minds. In past decades, there were many things impossible for human beings, and now almost everything is possible like laser surgery, laser weapons, visiting outer space, targeting a far distance, distraction point from your own territory using nuclear weapons and many more advance technologies that have been made possible in today’s world. Moreover, these all have become possible by scientists and researchers after attending college and learning through