Life without computers?

By Michael Fisher CIS101 - Introduction to Computer Science Tuesday 7:00 to 9:45pm Instructor: Professor Eli Minkoff August 1999

Can we even begin to imagine a life without computers? Where would we be today without the greatest invention ever, the computer. Sure some people blame technology as the downfall of mankind, there’s always going to be people who think change is bad. Computers are like a giant telescope that helps mankind see further than he could ever imagine and brings dreams to reality.

Visiting the moon, a dream that millions have dreamed about throughout time, but up until just a few decades ago no one could have ever really believed we could have done so. Without the assistance of computers a walk on the moon would never be possible.

Even the very first computers could do mathematics calculations hundreds of times faster than a person could do them manually. Today scientists are using computers to recreate the big bang (on a much smaller scale of course) and of course there are still those people with there heads in the ground, saying that this high powered physics experiment will be the end of mankind, will be the end of everything.

In the fall researchers will give a super computer a few final commands and there new particle accelerator will be running at full power. Exactly how this all works is hard to understand but with the help of computers we will be able to see what the universe first looked like when atoms of gold crash into one another traveling at 99.9% the speed of light.

Computers are probably going to get faster and double their storage capacity every couple years for the next 20-30 years, people who think technology is the downfall of mankind are obviously going to have to move to some remote region of Antarctica or get use to this technology boom, because it isn’t going away anytime soon.