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Student name: Jose O Hidalgo Palacios.

Class: Computer Science Colloquium – CSCI – 1010

Due date: Mar 1, 2016.

Computer Science the key to a bright future for Latin America.

 Among the many gifts and improvements that computer science has brought to Latin

 America the most important has to be communications, the progressive and unifying

power of communication has open a myriad of opportunities for the many poor Latin

 American countries that still struggle to be part of a globalize economy, in this short

paper I would like to address or to point a few of the many fields in which computer

science has revolutionize the way Latin America sees the world.

Is been more than 50 years since the first computer came to Latin America, it was back

in the 1960’s in Argentina, when a few scientists first explore the use of computers f or

the application of calculus; today the majority of the Latin American people use

everything that is build thanks to computer to communicate, to unify their families.

 A lot of Latinos travel North to the USA or east to Spain or Europe in search of better

opportunities, on their way to another country they leave their families, their loved ones

behind, Technology in general and even more important computers are a bridge for

many to have the opportunity to get closer between each other. It also has become a

way for many to inspire others, one of the recent examples is #SOSVenezuela which

was a social movement that spark a social movement that unified both ideological

extremes within the country, those who were followers of ex-president Chavez and

those that were against the current government raised to go against a government that

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is destroying their hopes and opportunities, besides social media, advances in health

has increase due to a better management of data, virus like the zika, the chikungunya

and many others had been able to be control thanks to a systematized way in which the

data helps to keep control this dangerous epidemics, As a form of expression computer

science has allowed a lot of artist show their crafts on the internet as way of graphic

designs or as music, making easier to expand and globalize the cultures that make

them rich in priceless value.

It has also allowed many businesses to grow and expand their horizons to a global

reach, like one of the best coffees from my country Nicaragua which now you can find it

and buy it online. It is indeed so hard to describe and expand of the great benefits and

gifts that computer science and technology in general has brought to the world and in

regarding to my paper, the Latin Americas.

Before I finish this paper I would like to share a quote by Nikola Tesla, “The spread of

civilization may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a

mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.” (by Nikola Tesla, 1856, 1943), today

Computer science and technology has become part of our civilization, a global

movement and innovation that will change and shape the destiny of the human race to

an unimaginable scale, not only by making life as we know it a bit easier but also by

allowing us to become one, in culture, understanding, a unify vision of that which

humans call destiny and future.