The development of technology in this country has been significant to the daily lives of Americans today. In the twenty-first century, one of the greatest successes of technology is the use of laptops. People, like students, are faced with the fact that laptops have made their lives easier. Some colleges and universities have allowed each student to bring their own personal laptop with Internet connectivity to class, while others believe this easily undermines students' learning abilities instead of promoting and increasing classroom learning. Although personal laptops in class have numerous benefits, there have been frequent complaints from professors that laptops hinder learning, and as a result, they should be banned from bringing them to class as laptops can easily distract students, not all students they can afford to purchase a laptop and it would prevent students from cheating or plagiarizing. Older generations would tell stories about how the technology we have today didn't exist in their time. Currently it is something you can't live without; especially for students who use their laptops to register for lectures online, write assignments, take notes on Word documents, do research now that databases and libraries are available online, and view PowerPoint slides with the professor during lectures. Because personal laptops are not monitored, professors have little control over what a student is doing on their laptops while sitting in their classroom. In an article by Carrie B. Fried titled Laptop Use in the Classroom and Its Effects on Student Learning, she stated that among survey participants she interviewed, “64.3% reported using their laptops… . in the middle of the paper. .....ww.mcla.edu/Academics/uploads/textWidget/3424.00018/documents/laptop_use_in_the_classroom.pdfGlater, Jonathan D. "Colleges Chase Each Other as Cheats Move to Higher Tech." New York Times May 18, 2006: n. page Network. July 6, 2011. .Grace-Martin, M. and Gay, G. “Web Browsing, Mobile Computing, and Academic Performance.” Educational Technology and Society, 4(3), 2001: 95-107.Hirsch, Jim. “Learning in collaboration with technology.” School Administrator August 1, 2005: 10. eLibrary. Network. July 6, 2011. "Identity theft and financial life." Daily Record [Baltimore] August 23, 2004, special for the Daily Record ed.: n. page eLibrary. Network. July 6, 2011.Urban, Mike. “Personal information on stolen laptops, Albright says.” Tribuna Business News [Reading of the Eagle] 14 Apr. 2011: n. page eLibrary. Network. 6 July 2011.