Arts,+Liesure,+&+Entertainment

**__Arts:__** One example of how technology has affected the arts is in music. Classical music to be exact. On an [|Oprah] show recently, a guest classical guitartist was accompanied by an orchestra. However, you couldn't see the orchestra. "Well how did they see the music?" people might ask. It's simple yet quite advanced and fascinating: Technology. The music stands were computerized and had the piece of music encoded in them. The stand was literally and screen that had the music in it. A person backstage would press a button every time a page needed to be turned. The musicians were in total darkness but were still able to play because the screens lit up. All you could see were the music stands, and the guitarist. This is a prime example of how technology has affected the arts.

T.V., DVDs, MP3 players, [|Ipods], [|Nintendo] Wii, [|PSPs], PS3, computers, Facebook, [|Myspace],[|youtube], cell phones, etc. All these and more are just a few examples of technological forms of entertainment. I mean, how many people, when they have free time, go for a long bike ride? Not many. Now, when people have free time on their hands, they instead go and check their facebook page or email, surf the web and watch youtube videos, play [|games], or do any of the other infinite things the internet allows us to do. This is just the internet however. People also play video games, text eachother, listen to music, [|buy] stuff, look up [|sports], etc. Our lives have become more and more centered around technology and it has become almost an essential part of our lives. Especially the [|internet]. People now use the interent for just about anything and everything. Buying, chatting, research, [|dating], editing pictures; everything! I-Pad The iPad is a tablet computer designed and marketed by Apple for Internet browsing, media consumption, gaming, and light content creation. A "tablet computer", or simply "tablet", is a complete computer contained entirely in a flat touch screen that uses a stylus, digital pen, or fingertip as an input device instead of a keyboard or mouse. It was released in April 2010, it established a new class of devices between smartphones and laptops. As of May 31, 2010, Apple had sold 2 million iPad.
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