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
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
29Bionics
22: The Computer’s Past
30The Computer as a Thinker
3The Mechanics of Reason
317: Uncle Sam’s Computers
4The Computer in Literature
32The Computer in Washington
5Early Mechanical Devices
33Electronic Legal Eagle
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6Symbolic Logic
34Computers in Khaki
7The Census Taker
35In the Air
8The Modern Computer
36On the Sea
93: How Computers Work
37Computers in Space
10The Computer’s Parts
38Summary
11Input
398: The Computer in Business and Industry
12Control
40The Shopper’s Friend
13Arithmetic or Logic
41Electronic Ticker Tape
14Memory
42Versatile Executive
15Output
43Communication
16Another Kind of Computer
44Industry
174: Computer Cousins—Analog and Digital
45The Designing Computer
18The Analog Measuring Stick
46Digital Doctor
19The Digital Counter
47Music
20Hybrid Computers
48The Machine at Play
21Summary
49Business Outlook
225: The Binary Boolean Bit
509: The Computer and Automation: The Robots
23The Binary System
5110: The Academic Computer
24The Logical Algebra
52Teaching Machines
256: The Electronic Brain
53Language
26Thinking Defined
54Information Retrieval
27The Human Brain
55Summary
28The Computer’s Brain
5611: The Road Ahead
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