计算机专业英语教学资料-The Future of Computing.docVIP

The Future of Computing Life goes in circles, or in spirals to be more precise. Thus to get a glimpse of the future you perhaps should take a look at the past. Computing has become an inseparable component of our lives and therefore is a subject to the same law of cycles and spirals. So let’s start in the 1940s, at the dawn of electronic computing when ENIAC was a pinnacle of scientific engineering. Initially occupying whole buildings, then scaling down to individual rooms and towering boxes computers of 1950s,1960s, and 1970s were essentially mainframes: Large and powerful, specialpurpose, a