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Today technology is better than ever and this is crucial for a designer. If a designer knows how use a computer for design then he or she is ahead of the game. By using a computer to aid them in design means they can draw floor plans, sections, details of various things, 3-d renderings, perspectives, and many other things. Also using the computer to help aid in design means math may not be such a problem anymore. If you use AutoCAD for example, it helps out a great deal with the math and does so much of it for you. I think this is leading a future of programs and computers that would already have all the information downloading into it like building code and so on so that when drafting out a floor plan for example, it would account for a codes and meet them. It has come a long ways however. Maybe in the future these 3-d programs will be simpler to use. You may not be able to tell the difference between a jpeg and a 3-d rendered drawing. This would help the client visualize an actual structure or so they think rather than a cartoon looking box like some programs still look like today. Judging from the last 50 years we have greatly improved and advanced when it comes to technology and the idea of computing in design and I feel its only going to keep advancing and helping us and making things easier on us.