Computer Monitoring, Forging Tools for the Future Computer Monitoring is most often intended to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the workplace, but with good intentions comes the opportunity for abuse by employers and employees alike. An example of both can be found in an article taken from The Futurist. Kristen Bell De Tienne's composition " Big Brother or Friendly Giant: Computer Monitoring in the 21st Century" is an exceptional observation as to what the future may …showed first 75 words of 752 total…

…showed last 75 words of 752 total…can take a hammer and forge a weapon into a tool that can benefit the whole village. Employers are the Blacksmiths employees are the hammers, monitoring is the tool. It takes both to make a tool to benefit the future. Bibliography DeTienne, Kristen Bell. "Big Brother or Friendly Coach: Computer Monitoring in the 21st Century" Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Ed Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen New York. Addison Wesley Longhorn, Inc. 1997 461-466