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The Theory of Computer Science: A Programming Approach
The first electronic digital computer was constructed as recently as the 1940s. In the thirty or so years that have elapsed since then, the use of computers has spread to the point where there can now be very few people in Western society whose lives are not affected by computation. The vast majority of companies, government departments, and institutes of tertiary education have their own computer centers, as does a large and growing number of secondary schools.
Although we can hardly begin to conjecture what computers will be used for after another thirty years have gone by, we can safely predict applications such as automated traffic lights, assembly lines, self-piloted vehicles for planetary exploration, automated timetable and route planning services, and machines to work autonomously in environments, such as the ocean bed, which are hostile to man. In fact, prototypes for most of these activities already exist. Equally, the rapidly decreasing cost of computers will mean that, as is already the case with television, a substantial proportion of the population will own one or more computers, whose power will match that of current large machines. We can hardly begin to estimate the impact this will eventually have on the dissemination of information, the quality of life, and the organization of society.
Although we can hardly begin to conjecture what computers will be used for after another thirty years have gone by, we can safely predict applications such as automated traffic lights, assembly lines, self-piloted vehicles for planetary exploration, automated timetable and route planning services, and machines to work autonomously in environments, such as the ocean bed, which are hostile to man. In fact, prototypes for most of these activities already exist. Equally, the rapidly decreasing cost of computers will mean that, as is already the case with television, a substantial proportion of the population will own one or more computers, whose power will match that of current large machines. We can hardly begin to estimate the impact this will eventually have on the dissemination of information, the quality of life, and the organization of society.
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HB,285P:23X15:INDEX
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