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Humanity teaching sand to think by jolting it with lightning in precise patterns.
means The activity of using or operating computers, or of performing calculations and processing information, especially by electronic machines.
from From the Latin 'computare,' to count up or reckon together — 'com-' (together) plus 'putare,' to settle an account, prune, or reckon. The same root branches into 'count' and 'putative.' For centuries a 'computer' was a person — often a woman — hired to do arithmetic by hand; only in the mid-20th century did the word migrate to the machines that took over the job.
- first programmer
- Ada Lovelace wrote algorithms before computers existed
- silicon source
- Chips begin as purified beach sand
- bug origin
- A real moth jammed a 1947 relay
- raw scale
- Top supercomputers exceed a quintillion operations per second
- power hunger
- Data centers rival small nations' electricity use
eniac — first general-purpose electronic computer, built at university of pennsylvania in 1946, weighed 30 tons
apple ii — first mass-produced personal computer, released by apple in 1977, had 4 kb of ram
ibm system 360 — revolutionary mainframe series launched by ibm in 1964, dominated corporate computing for decades