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Introduction

. . . or on smartphones. Thousands of jobs are being created and new careers are starting every day in the enormously wide-ranging fields of technology.

information could be quantitatively encoded as a series of ones and zeroes. By the 1970s, when the US government developed the Internet, and the 1980s, when personal com- puters became widely available, it was undeniable that the world had entered into an entirely new age. New technologies have changed the way we work and play, and African Americans, while still underrepre- sented in the tech fields, have made several important con- tributions. In the final chapter, read more about why diversity in the tech arena is so important and find out about possible paths to a high-tech career. •

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