Computers have changed the world
Computers have changed the world. ... Using satellite technology and fiber-optics it is possible to communicate instantaneously anywhere in the world, using the Internet it is possible to use visual-telephones with almost no lag and this technology is available to almost everyone. If there is one field of social change that is on the fast track, then it is the field of technology, specifically computers, telecommunications and the Internet. Computers There are five recognized generations of the modern computer. The first is from 1945-1956, World War II lead governments to research the potential of computers in strategic combat. ... First generation computers were characterized by the fact that operating instructions were made-to-order for the specific task for which the computer was to be used. Second Generation was from 1956-1963, By 1948, the invention of the transistor greatly changed the computers development. The transistor replaced the large, cumbersome vacuum tube in televisions, radios and computers. ... Coupled with early advances in magnetic-core memory, transistors led to second generation computers that were smaller, faster, more reliable and more energy-efficient than their predecessors. ... As a result, computers became ever smaller as more components were squeezed onto the chip. Another third-generation development included the use of an operating system that allowed machines to run many different programs at once with a central program that monitored and coordinated the computers memory. ... dime helped diminish the size and price of computers. ... We are currently living the fifth generation, many advances in the science of computer design and technology are coming together to enable the creation of fifth-generation computers. ... Computers today have some attributes of fifth generation computers. ... Canada uses the most "interac" or inter-active transactions per capita in the entire world (Adams, p 12, 1998). ... See Database (Jenkins, p 45, 1995) By means of electronic mail, terminals transmit documents such as letters, reports, and telexes to other computers or terminals. ... This is shown in the assimilation of cultures from all across the world. Some examples of this include, Japanimation anime, Pokemon, Canadian Television being viewed around the world (Much Music, Degrassi Jr. ... In January 1994 there were an estimated 2 million computers linked to the Internet. ... At the end of 1995, 10 million computers with 40-50 million users were assumed to be connected to the network-of-networks. If it goes on like this, most personal computers will be wired to the network at the end of this century (Internet Society 1996). ... Internet, in computer science, an open interconnection of networks that enables connected computers to communicate directly. ... In early 1995 more than 50,000 networks and 5 million computers were connected via the Internet, with a computer growth rate of about 9 percent per month. ... It is expected that 100 million computers will be connected via the public Internet by 2000, and even more via enterprise internets.