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Who Uses Computers?

 
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"The computer is having and will have a bigger impact than atomic energy...It is having a deeper effect on us because it seems to penetrate everywhere at every level. It penetrates social activity, political activity, the way people are thinking. Its hard to think of any aspect of our lives that are not significantly influenced." (May, K. O., 1980).  

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Satellite Communication
 Mobile Phone

Some of today's technology that uses computing

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Over the centuries many people invented machines to carry out a task that they commanded. In 1642 Blaise Pascal created the wheel calculator to aid his father with his tax collecting duties, Herman Hollerith in 1889 produced a machine to compute the USA census more rapidly. The origins of computing came from a human wanting of information to be calculated with accuracy, speed and efficiency. Since these early developments we have seen the production of mainframes, personal computers and the creation of both the hardware and software industries globally.

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Bank Machine (ATM)
 Royal Navy Sea Harrier FA2

Some of today's technology that uses computing

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Internationally computers have been and are developed for need, a market. Whether it be schools, government, military, personal or even for sports use, computers have linked themselves into our lives, becoming evermore essential to the world that we live in and enabling us turn tedious duties into an interactive experience with a computer.


 
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