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The ancient Greek-designed Antikythera mechanism, dating between 150 to 100 BC, is the world's oldest analog computer.
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Modern airplanes wouldn’t be able to fly without it, no it’s
not a jet engine. It’s given us mobiles phones, compact discs and space travel.
Without it money would effectively ceased to exist, Western society would
collapse. So a big thumbs up for the revolutionary device the computer. Just
about every area of our lives today is been touched by the silicon hand of the
microprocessor. Computers keep us warm, they cook up food, they play our music,
and even they protect us from harm in so many ways that a better faster us. On
the other hand though the computers are bad tempered, petulant, they live in a
permanent state. To make matters worse the computers have become so much more
than glorifying typewriters. They are robots, cars, designers and pilots
apparently computers now have intelligence they have become so bright that they
can even chop vegetables. Computers then have certainly changed the world.
Today computers are quite simply everywhere they are on your desk, on your lap,
in your palm, they makes your washing machine work , they can play a cd, they
are on your wrist watches, in short just about anything which uses electricity
today will have a microprocessor a computer. But do remember in 1999 NASA’s
mars climate orbiter was programmed by using both metric and imperial units. So
after ten long months getting to mars the system got confused by inches here
and centimeters there, the hundred and twenty million dollars space program got
clouded somewhere else so that you see computer maybe great at doing Maths quickly
they even appear to be clever but they are not you know they are daft as
brushes and the reason why they are so stupid is that they blindly carry out
human mistakes perfectly and uncritically. This stupidity should scare us to
death but it doesn’t what scare us is something else, For years we have told
that one day we’ll build a computerized emotionless cyborg that absolutely will
not stop but is this really the future? Can we ever expect to be walking with
robots in the towns? Yes Honda has it’s ASIMO but it’s not really that
functional. For anything approaching that kind of world domination that
governor Schwarzenegger deals in computers that robots would require at least a
modicum of intelligence and this is what scares us. Very credible scientists
out there are pushing AI as the next big thing. Even it wouldn’t be wrong to
predict that one day computers will have minds of their own. There’s no doubt
that the computer has changed our world out of all recognitions in an
incredibly short period of time and it seems major developments still to come
pretty soon they say the computers will become truly benevolent pandering to
your dreams and fantasy. Or let’s say what they say because these are people
who promised that people will be wearing a bakery foil suit by the year two
thousand and will live on the diet of pills they said that the moon will be
colonized within 2020. So if you forgive me if I remain a little bit skeptical
about the claims being made for the future of the computer. Apart from
something else I’m sure that I don't want voice recognition everywhere or a laptop
saying hello Shayan in an American accent every morning and I definitely don’t
want anything computer inserting in me.
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