Early Computational Devices Somewhere around 3000BC the first mechanical counting device created was the abacus. The abacus is still used today and, amazingly to me, with great speed and accuracy. In 1642 another mechanical device was created called the Pascaline (after Blaise Pascal, a fa...

ECE 180 PRODUCT CREATION IDEA To: Tom MurphyFrom: Trevor HartmanSubject: Interactive GlobeDate: 13 February 2001 This memo's purpose is to present to you my new idea on the world's first interactive globe. I wish for you to review my interactive globe idea and authorize it for p...

Running head: SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION OF "THE FIRST DECADE OF PERSONAL COMPUTING" Summary and Discussion of "The First Decade of Personal Computing" Synopsis The "First Decade of Personal Computing" is an interesting account of the technologica...

The mental ability of humans is a characteristic unparalleled in the natural world. We are alienated from other organisms by our complex and multifaceted thought process. In fact, humans are so unique in the animal kingdom that our greatest intellectual rival may be a nonliving object of our ...

All my life I knew I wanted to have a career in the music business. I instantly knew that it would not involve singing because I am a horrible singer. I figured why not go for the next best thing. If you really think about it; the singers would not be anywhere if it were not for the people in the...

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Computer technology not only has solved problems but also has created some, including a certain amount of culture shock as individuals attempt to deal with the new technology. A major role of computer science has been to alleviate such problems, mainly by making computer systems cheaper, faster, mo...

If there were no technology what would happen to the world? Inventions such as traffic lights, microwaves and the television would not exist. Also we would not have transportation or medicine. We would not know anything about our atmosphere and outer space. Technology changes during 1980s and 1990s ...

I typed so furiously my roommate thought my fingers had become infected with a strange disease. When he asked what I was working on with such intensity, I told him that I was placing the finishing touches on my senior project. I didn\'t want to tell him that I had also vowed to help my company restr...

Is Computer Technology Ruining Society Today? Ever since the beginning of our existence, man has been trying to forge ahead and better himself. Throughout history man has pushed to achieve that which had always been considered unachievable. Sure some have shunned advancements and some have eve...

For many years, technology had made people's lives more proficient and at ease. There is hardly anyone who has not been changed by the advances in technology and computers of our society. The most interesting and exciting thing about technology and computers is the efficiency that it brings t...

Society today has rapidly changed to an unknown world with all the technology that has recently been blossoming. After reading "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", by Walter Benjamin, I realized how aura of the artwork truly is lost when surfing the Internet. When previ...

Is Computer Technology Ruining Society Today? Ever since the beginning of our existence, man has been trying to forge ahead and better himself. Throughout history man has pushed to achieve that which had always been considered unachievable. Sure some have shunned advancements and some have even...

In what ways does Neal Stephenson, the author of Snow Crash apply principles of programming to his description and interpretation of Sumerian history? What could ancient Sumerian history and computer programming possibly have to do with one another? Both, suggests Neal Stephenson's novel S...

Ethics in the Age of Information The information age is the age we live in today, and with the information age comes an age of ethics. When we deal with the new technologies introduced every day, we need to decide what we must consider ethical and unethical. We must consider all factors so that the ...

ENIAC is a book by Scott McCartney. It is a detailed account of the trials and tribulations of the first real computer, the ENIAC. The ENIAC was the first true computer, shunning gears and other mechanical parts to transmit and calculate in favor of an entirely electrical system, using electrons to ...

A computer is a devise that processes, organize, and calculate, displays information. It can communicate with other computers all over the world. The most powerful computer can perform 10s of billion of calculations per second. People use computers for business, track inventories, and use bar codes,...

Most of us swap disks with friends and browse the Net looking for downloads. Rarely do we ever consider that we are also exchanging files with anyone and everyone who has ever handled them in the past. If that sounds like a warning about social diseases, it might as well be. Computer viruses are eve...

Computers are such an integral part of our society that it is sometimes difficult to Imagine life without them. However, computers as we know them are relatively new devices. In fact, the first electronic computers were built just over fifty years ago. Since that time, the technology has advanced at...

The career test was an interesting and informative assignment to complete. The results from the career test gave many suggestions on the different types of occupations that I should consider in the future. My highest score started with the code C, which is for conventional occupations which includ...

The following is an excerpt from the journal of a two year old Comp. Discovered on November 30, 7120, it is one of very few existing writtenrecords that give descriptions of a long forgotten race called Humans. Wehave found that it details the origin of our race and explains how thecreation of Com...