Length8h 39m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "While you are reading this sentence, an electronic computer is performing 3 million mathematical operations! Before you read this page, another computer could translate it and several others into a foreign language. Electronic "brains" are taking over chores that include the calculation of everything from automobile parking fees to zero hour for space missile launchings. Despite bitter winter weather, a recent conference on computers drew some 4,000 delegates to Washington, D.C.; indicating the importance and scope of the new industry. The 1962 domestic market for computers and associated equipment is estimated at just under $3 billion, with more than 150,000 people employed in manufacture, operation, and maintenance of the machines. In the short time since the first electronic computer made its appearance, these thinking machines have made such fantastic strides in so many different directions that most of us are unaware how much our lives are already being affected by them. Banking, for example, employs complex machines that process checks and handle accounts so much faster than human bookkeepers 2that they do more than an hour's work in less than thirty seconds."
Audiobook details
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GenreHistory
Length8 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 18, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
11: Computers—The Machines We Think With
26Thinking Defined
22: The Computer’s Past
27The Human Brain
3The Mechanics of Reason
28The Computer’s Brain
4The Computer in Literature
29Bionics
5Early Mechanical Devices
30The Computer as a Thinker
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6Symbolic Logic
317: Uncle Sam’s Computers
7The Census Taker
32The Computer in Washington
8The Modern Computer
33Electronic Legal Eagle
93: How Computers Work
34Computers in Khaki
10The Computer’s Parts
35In the Air
11Input
36On the Sea
12Control
37Computers in Space
13Arithmetic or Logic
38Summary
14Memory
398: The Computer in Business and Industry
15Output
40The Shopper’s Friend
16Another Kind of Computer
41Electronic Ticker Tape
174: Computer Cousins—Analog and Digital
42Versatile Executive
18The Analog Measuring Stick
43Communication
19The Digital Counter
44Industry
20Hybrid Computers
45The Designing Computer
21Summary
46Digital Doctor
225: The Binary Boolean Bit
47Music
23The Binary System
48The Machine at Play
24The Logical Algebra
49Business Outlook
256: The Electronic Brain
509: The Computer and Automation: The Robots
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