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Office Automation 14-25

In publishing, for example, traditional book and magazine

companies are becoming information companies that provide data base
services accessible5 through terminals on customers premises6. Telephone 5. สามารถเข้าถึงได้

companies are being reorganized to enter the computer business, while 6. ทรัพย์สินท้ังหมด

computer companies are going into the communications business. รวมอาคารและ

The breakthrough is that they are all information companies. ที่ดิน

Activity 13 Comprehension Check
1. Name two of the main benefits that information technologies can bring to a company.

2. Name three ways in which computer technology enhances output.

3. In what way are breakthroughs an important element in information technology?

4. Name one sector that has been transformed in terms of its reach, scope, and effectiveness
by the new information technology.

Activity 14
Full in the blanks with the appropriate word (s) form the list.

premises accessible accomplish reach
eliminate delegate unprecedented

1. A few years ago, Bangkok experienced a property boom unheard of in modern times.

Because of such an event, even owners of modest-sized plots of land

made a fortune.

2. T he inefficient manager tries to do everything himself; the efficient manager, however,

learns to responsibility to his subordinates.

3. The Finance Company used to be on the second floor of Mai Lee Towers. Now they have

moved, however; their new are on the third floor of the Tai Ping

Building.

4. Many word-processing programs identify mistakes, not only of spelling and grammar, but

also of style. In other words, they help the writer to every mistake from

his material.