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Essay Archive - The Computer Revolution
The Computer Revolution
If I were to make a history book of the years from 1981 to 1996,
I would put computers on the cover. Computers, you may ask?, Yes computers,
because if there were suddenly no computers on the world, there would be total
chaos. People could not; communicate, commute, make business transactions,
purchase things, or do most things in their daily routine, because power plants
use computers to control the production of electricity.
Computers have evolved extreme rapidly in the past fifteen years.
Ten years ago, all that you could do with a computer, was primarily make
mathematical calculatio....
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