The second half of "Computers:The Life Story of a Technology" by Eric G. Swedin and David L. Ferro continues to elaborate on the evolution of computers. The first personal/home computer, which is known as desktop today, was first thought of in 1973 by Les Solomon. It was called the Altair because that was what planet Enterprise went to on Star Treck's episode when Solomon created it. The Altair 8800 was the beginning of the computer market business and after its invention other companies tried to compete, by making different concepts. The second half also mentions Bill Gates and how he created Microsoft as software to be ran on these new computers. It also mentions Apple as well.
America's digitally connected society is a result to the packet switching discuss in the Computers book. Basically data being sent to certain locations; and later would expand to wireless Internet and Networking. Obviously today everyone is connected and is part of some sort of network. Interestingly enough, Americans, as well as the whole world, seems to depend on these networks for communication between one another; although they do not know the origin or how these networks came about. Before this class I was one of 'those' people, but now after reading just the first book of the class, have become acclimated to the history of networking/computer.
Computers have become world wide. Almost everything has technology/computers in it. Pretty soon the world will be ran by computers just like all the hypothetical movies and shows. The Artificial Intelligence and Robitics development foreshadow this theory. It is scary to think that computers are able to have cognitive abilities that resemble that of humans. When it comes to technology the possibilities are endless. At the end of the book, Swedin talks about nanotechnology and pretty much endless technological power that cannot be seen by the human eye. We live in a fast paced world, but technology is moving at a pace that may be uncontrollable in the future. Who knows...maybe when the human race is taken over by AI robots they may develop even more enhanced technology that will take them over as well. I feel like the end of technology surpass infinite. We are only in the midst of the beginning of an technological age.
ChristoPHO
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