I found this book by chance at the 2006 World Book Fair in Singapore. It's called "The Morphology of Modern Linguistics." I looked up "morphology" in Wikipedia, my favourite online encyclopaedia, because I was interested. I found that it was listed under linguistics, mathematics, and even biology.
What about technology, especially when it comes to information technology, which is changing quickly?
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a platform that is a good example of how technology is changing. VoIP users no longer have to use their own voices when talking to family, talking about business, or doing long-distance interviews. Voice changers made it easy to change natural voices in a wide range of ways, such as by age, gender, or both.
The way people take in multimedia clips is another example of this new way of thinking about morphology. Don't worry about whether Blu-ray DVD or HD-DVD is better. This is about giving listeners and viewers the ability to change the audio and video quality as they please. DVD morpher software lets you "morph" music and movies, which means you can add special audio and video effects to the tracks or cut out unwanted parts of your favourite videos.
In addition to all of the above, I recently heard that you could change your webcam image without even needing a webcam while you were live chatting. People can now add animated text and pictures to their webcam images or pretend to be someone else with a different face and real gestures and facial expressions. This is made possible by a programme that might be called a "webcam morpher."
Since a lot of undersea fibre optic cables have been built and new software is constantly being made, the way computers are used in the world has changed into more than just a work-study template. They are now a way to meet new people and have fun.
And at the heart of this amazing thing is the morphology of technology, which means that computer tasks can be used to control and change the results.
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