{"id":87,"date":"2012-03-30T15:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2018-06-26T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T17:05:01","slug":"the-development-of-the-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/the-development-of-the-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Development of the Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_autopost\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/iStock_000010739793_Medium.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1421\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/iStock_000010739793_Medium-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"development of the computer\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/iStock_000010739793_Medium-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/iStock_000010739793_Medium-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/iStock_000010739793_Medium.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What would existence be like with no computer? It\u2019s difficult to imagine but it wasn\u2019t that long ago that we didn\u2019t have them. Now many of us carry <a title=\"Virtualization\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/virtualization.html\" target=\"_blank\">multiple computers<\/a>, i.e. laptops, e-readers, and smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How did computers grow to be such an important appliance in such a short amount of time? That&#8217;s the question that science historian and author George Dyson asks, and answers, in his new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/mar\/25\/turings-cathedral-george-dyson-review\" class=\"external external_icon\" rel=\"nofollow\">Turing&#8217;s Cathedral<\/a><\/em>, a kind of personal history of the computer.<\/p>\n<p>Dyson, the son of scientist Freeman Dyson, has spent a great deal of his life at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. 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Moreover there were some ethical problems that the creators of the computer faced while working on this project, because the work they were doing had a close relationship with the U.S. nuclear weapons project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You may have the notion that a history book about computers won&#8217;t just be dry but probably full of technical jargon. This is not the case with <em>Turing&#8217;s Cathedral<\/em>; most people who use computers will find this book fascinating. And that is a lot of people these days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would existence be like with no computer? It\u2019s difficult to imagine but it wasn\u2019t that long ago that we didn\u2019t have them. 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