What Is The Computer Essay

Since hundreds of years of mankind existence, there are millions of inventions have been created and until now the numbers of new inventions are still growing but there is one invention that probably should be said as the King. Yes, that’s right, it’s the Computer. Computers nowadays could not be separated from the mankind especially from this modern world that we are living in. Without even realising it, we are using computers all day long until that extend that we cannot live without them. Probably the computers deserved to be called ‘Man’s best friend’ rather than the dogs. Computers are not only the one that we face to on top our office desk, its everywhere around us. The phone that we use to talk with, the calculators that we are using to solve mathematical problems, the price calculating machines in the shopping centres , electronic system in the car we are driving ,the modern flat screen television that we are watching, you name it , all of them are basically computers. As these computer are playing a very dominant role in mankind daily life, do we actually know and understand how it is created and how do it is develop to be as what we are seeing it now. The question now is, where all this invention did came from and where it is actually heading in the future. To actually get a good understanding about the computers, it is really important to know how did it evolved and developed along the way up to the present.
It all started with the creation of The Abacus which is calculating device is invented 5 millennium in Asia and which is still being used until today, it’s known as the first computer. This device allows users to make calculations using sliding beads arranged in a rack form. Only after about 1200 years, next adv...

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Conclusively, the computers used in every household took almost half a century to evolve and be as it is. Don’t be surprised if I tell you that it does not stop here. Computers are actually at its best now and the industry is actually growing faster than ever with new findings and achievement done almost every day. The new generation is actually at the edge of its completion. Yes, you are right; it’s the fifth generation, the ‘artificial intelligence’. The development of this generation includes the use of parallel processing and superconductors. In the years to come, Quantum computation and nanotechnology will definitely change the perception towards computers. The real core of fifth-generation computing is the development which reacts to natural language inputs and capable of organized self- learning. Let see what happens.