Thursday 9 June 2011

Our life day with out computer


It's not too long ago that computers were a real luxury, many didn't have one - and those who did got only one - and so they were viewed as some awesome model of tomorrow. Eventually, using computers, we will have the capacity to do... well, the possibilities were limitless. And also a bunch of the forecasts have already come true, specially the manner in which computers have linked up the planet via the Internet. Now it is difficult for many of us to visualize what the world would be like with no computer.

Without the computer, communication will be slower and less successful. Shopping would be a much more stressful process. If your sports team was miles away and hidden, then without the presence of Internet you would be waiting a long time to hear results of any games in which they played. Bands would certainly find it very difficult indeed to acquire any publicity beyond their home towns. And business has been changed irrevocably through the birth of computers and specially the Internet. If the computer was taken out of our lives the next day, we would miss it. Even those of us who definitely are self-confessed technophobes would soon realize just what had been sacrificed with its departure. And if we quite often have got cause to curse the impact that computers have - which many of us do - then it really is at least worth realizing that this is a trade-off we all have had to make. The Information Revolution is up there with the Industrial one in relation to impact.
Computers - The Predictions We've Got Incorrect
These days, we all know where we are with computers. Even a few of the nearly all hardened Luddites of history have come to terms with the undeniable fact that computers are not going to arise and overthrow the human race, and are beginning to use them, if sparingly. But when we initially started to discover an information technology world, we failed to realize exactly how huge it would develop. It's almost guaranteed that you or a friend or acquaintance possesses an IBM computer. It's a fairly large name. You may wonder just how that came to be when you realize that in 1943 their then chairman assumed that the eventual market for the home computer would expand to about 5 homes having a computer each. He was a few million off, it is safe to say. Several houses now have five or more.
Xerox are the world's number 1 brand in photocopiers. Nonetheless, they were well ahead of IBM in terms of creating PCs, but shelved the idea when they decided that photocopiers would be more rewarding. Just how different might the world be had they thought differently? We'll never know. At one time it was thought that computers would never ever possess a household application because the machines were too large. Today you possibly can fit 1 in your pocket.
Just before computers were even really conceptualized, the commissioner of the US Office of patents told the then President McKinley that "everything that can be invented has been invented". One can only wonder how he would answer the entire world we live in today.

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