Computers And Society
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The decade of the 1980's saw an explosion in computer technology and
computer usage that deeply changed society. Today computers are a part of
everyday life, they are in their simplest form a digital watch or more complexly
computers manage power grids, telephone networks, and the money of the wor ....
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.... by the British mathematician Charles Babbage. His design
of an analytical engine contained all of the necessary components of a modern
computer: input devices, a memory, a control unit, and output devices. Most of
the actions of the analytical engine were to be done through the use of punched
cards. Even though Babbage worked on the analytical engine for nearly 40 years,
he never actually made a working machine.
In 1889 Herman Hollerith, an American inventor, patented a calculating
machi ....
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