Impact of Computers on Our Society
Impact of Computers On Society
2010
The concept of a computing device was there since the 19th century but the actual device was not invented until the 1930s. The computers invented at that time served as a project to simplify scientific calculations and they fulfilled that task quite perfectly. Later on these were used to store data such as the process and calculations. At that time, people knew that this device was something which will never die like every important invention does for eg. The abacus(“though still used in lager parts of china”), the slide rule etc. . They knew that the computer was and will remain the most important discovery of the century. So from then on, further discoveries in the field of computer started taking place. The purpose of my presentation/ project is not to inform about the discoveries made but how each and every discovery made an impact on our society, how each and every discovery changed our way of living by making it more advanced for better or for WORSE….
The computer invented in the 1930s was an expensive, power consuming and slow device. It was normally used just to figure out which couldn’t be done with a scientific calculator. It was nothing more than a BIG CALCULATOR. But as I said this was not an invention which would die out easily, as it turns out it didn’t. There were more discoveries made in this invention and by 1970’s there was a whole industry named out of it, an industry we now know as the Information Technology(IT) industry. Abnd from then on, inventions kept pouring in, computer was made more efficient and cheap. The military started using it, scientists stored data in it but it still hadn’t affected the mass or we can say, THE REST OF THE SOCIETY, “THE COMMON MAN”.
In the 1970’s, a small device was invented… “THE MICROCHIP”. This small invention was the most important discovery in the field of computing. The basic principle of this chip was that it used basic semiconductor devices to create the whole
2010
The concept of a computing device was there since the 19th century but the actual device was not invented until the 1930s. The computers invented at that time served as a project to simplify scientific calculations and they fulfilled that task quite perfectly. Later on these were used to store data such as the process and calculations. At that time, people knew that this device was something which will never die like every important invention does for eg. The abacus(“though still used in lager parts of china”), the slide rule etc. . They knew that the computer was and will remain the most important discovery of the century. So from then on, further discoveries in the field of computer started taking place. The purpose of my presentation/ project is not to inform about the discoveries made but how each and every discovery made an impact on our society, how each and every discovery changed our way of living by making it more advanced for better or for WORSE….
The computer invented in the 1930s was an expensive, power consuming and slow device. It was normally used just to figure out which couldn’t be done with a scientific calculator. It was nothing more than a BIG CALCULATOR. But as I said this was not an invention which would die out easily, as it turns out it didn’t. There were more discoveries made in this invention and by 1970’s there was a whole industry named out of it, an industry we now know as the Information Technology(IT) industry. Abnd from then on, inventions kept pouring in, computer was made more efficient and cheap. The military started using it, scientists stored data in it but it still hadn’t affected the mass or we can say, THE REST OF THE SOCIETY, “THE COMMON MAN”.
In the 1970’s, a small device was invented… “THE MICROCHIP”. This small invention was the most important discovery in the field of computing. The basic principle of this chip was that it used basic semiconductor devices to create the whole