A department that is traditionally focused on domestic issues could become involved in foreign policy-making because of two main reasons:
- It can regulate a good or service given internationally. For example, it can be clothes or technological devices.
- Foreign policy-making (or foreign relations), also regulates behavior that could have an international consequence. For example, it could be a business that contaminates the environment.
The Population Registration Act determined people's race classification, which in turn determined the implementation of many other racially based laws. One of the apartheid laws passed in the 1950s was the Group Areas Act, which determined where people of different racial groups could live.
The printing press originated in Germany. It first took part in allowing for monasteries to copy bibles on a large scale as copies used to be made elegantly by hand. The former process that produced copies of books were too expensive for people of average wealth to afford. The printing press allowed more people to afford books due their "mass" production. This in turn increased literacy rates, since more people could now afford books and wished to read the bible and other popular works. Later on the printing press contributed to the formation of the United States of America as it allowed for important intellectuals to rapidly spread information about opposition to Britain. One such piece mass produced that is given some credit for the most immediate cause to the Revolution was Thomas Paine's Common Sense. Later on the printing press also became important as newspapers and magazines became popular along with yellow journalism which was mass produced due to the printing press. Basically throughout history it was the first form of social media which plagued society with information that caused wars and spread information rapidly from new scientific advancements and such. In fact the printing press mass producing journals, newspaper, and magazines can be directly related to the increase in world literacy, Revolutionary War, Spanish American War, WW1, WW2, and many many more events
The first computer or ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer) which the University of Pennsilvania built to do ballistics calculations for the U.S. and other early computers proved to many universities and corporations that these machines were useful because They could solve problems in 30 seconds that otherwise would have taken 12 hours by hand.
For this reason, most of the first computers in the United States were purchased by universities and corporations in spite of the space ,manpower and the tremendous investment of money, they demanded in this early stages.
