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Transformed The Computer From: Microminiaturization has transformed the computer from a military, engineering, and limited business tool to an important, widely used device. Primarily, computers manipulate numbers. Because numbers can symbolize any kind of information —words of a foreign language, the traffic pattern on a highway, musical notes in a symphony, the status of a chess game, or any one of myriad situations of importance in human affairs— the computer can perform any function that can be converted to a numerical system. It is far more than a super calculator, just as the automobile is far more than a super horse. The impact of the computer on society will be at least as great as that of the automobile.
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.
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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