It is amazing to note that
the invention of the computer was conceived over a hundred years before the
first working computer that we know today. According to the class lecture, Charles
Babbage began thinking and writing about a machine that could compute data;
that is pretty much what a computer does today. The computer that we use today
computes various 0s and 1s to output what we, the user, want the machine to do.
I found it interesting that World War II lead to the invention of better and
smaller computers, without the war the current computer that we use would have
been invented later or not at all. With more interest in computers, it
developed into a machine that everyone can use not just big corporations or
people with money. Because of computers we can communicate with people all over
the world in seconds. Developing more interest into this machines will allow
faster and better computers to be invented.
