Datacommuting

Datacommuting is using data to commute. I made the word from combining data communications and telecommuting (a combination of words telephone and commuting). The book goes through what it is, why datacommuting is important, ways to datacommute, positive aspects and downfalls. It also goes environmental aspects and energy use.
this book also includes photos, video, and audio reading.

Table of contents
1 what is data commuting?
2 More than just trying to stay green in a digital age
3 New Technologies : Technologies that make data commuting posible
4 one step at a time:Plan your commute online
5 Downsizing your transportation
6 The 3Rs Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
7 Older forms of commuting substitutes
8 Being Paperless
9 Medical Applications
10 The power of cloud computing
11 My other ideas

from 1st chapter:
It is using data to commute. It can be used along with traditional commuting or a replacement for it.

History
The tools used to develop modern computing date back to ancient times such as using an abacus, languages/writing.
From telegraph, calculator, telephone, answering machine, typewriter, fax, camera, fiberoptics, widespread wireless network adaptation, and email halve all evolved to make data commuting possible. Downsizing of computers from mainframe, to mini, to micro, to portable, to handheld.
There isn’t one single inventor or even device that makes it possible. It is many devices and many men and women (and sometimes even kids) that have made it possible. It is heavily dependent on the Internet (sometimes called “information superhighway”), but it is still possible on networks that are not connected and of course it is also dependent on the devices connected.

Datacommuting is the next step beyond telecommuting. Although telecommuting used computers, it heavily relied on the telephone and telephone lines. Businesses had to add extra lines to their employees homes so they could do their work. Employees did not get to meet face to face with other employees or customers without going into their office. Another problem, it was mostly (possibly for accounting purposes) only used for business purposes, thus there are still too many people driving and bridges crumbling down.
Datacommuting changes all those things. Know it or not, you may already be doing parts of it, but probably not enough to complete the full picture.
The advances with web technology has changed the way people learned and the positions people work. The local college, there used to be five different position has merged into one position all because of the web. Now called student services which used to be the financial aid, records/registration, information and business office combined because of web-based services and disability/admissions/counseling combined to another office.
Another thing that changed is the way students learn by web-based classes. Now during the summer the local college is mostly a ghost town because most Summer classes are just online.
Another way that has changed is that many books are not e-books so students don’t have to have backpacks for having books.