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Modern Computer Would: Potential applications of the computer made possible by microelectronics include a small computer in every home or a pocket computer terminal that can be connected to a powerful central computer via the telephone. Such devices may be used to solve our numerical problems (e.g., income tax, or our bank balance) or as a creative tool to relate our knowledge and experiences to our future actions.
Alan Turing (1912-54) pioneered computer theory and applications in electronic computing. He proposed
Machine, could read commands and data from a tape. This was the basis of modern computer would computer technoloi
During the 17th-cjohann Kepler,Pythagoras (6th c Be) is credited with the theory of numbers in musical intervals and several mathematical theories, the measurement of squares and right-angled triangles.
And what of the computer? Olof Johannesson's 1966 novel, The Tale of the Big Computer (which first appeared in an American edition in 1968), offers a history of the development of computers as told by an advanced computer of the future. In an unemotional, utterly convincing essay, it describes the gradual obsolescence and disappearance of its creator, man. |
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