50. On Computers - Daily Dose of Wisdom

What is new about the computer? You walk into a room and you see familiar machines: a typewriter, a tape recorder, a television, a telephone, audio speakers, of course a calculator—but none of these are new.

Unseen, however, beneath the floors and behind the walls, are cables connecting all these machines to work together as one. There is digital technology that allows them to all speak the same language—thereby transforming them from many ordinary machines into a single powerful computer.

Now, let’s take your own life. You do business, you study, you eat, you talk—each activity seemingly irrelevant to the next. A mess of fragments.

And such, too, is the native psyche of the human being: We have minds that understand one way, hearts that feel another—and what we do has often nothing to do with either of those.

Take the technology of the computer and apply it in terms of your everyday life: Find a common meaning at which all these fragments converge, and thereby unleash their power.

(Told in the days of the Big Computer to my father-in-law, Avraham Polichenco, professor of computer science)

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December 18, 2012

typewriters?

With all due respects, one does not see very many typewriters in rooms today. In fact, the two that belong to my wife, both beautiful Royal portables from a bygone age, are displayed on a living room bookshelf. A 10 year old child would probably not know what they are!

Richard
FL.

December 18, 2012

The Changing Times

Our early ancestors could never understand what technology we have in today's ever changing world. And there will be even greater changes to come that will boggle the mind. In the latter years people will have no need to even leave the homes for all things will be done from the computer of their age. We use the computer today while our ancestors used pen ink and a quill. we ride today in comfort our ancestors walked ever where they need to be that sometime took days or weeks. We do have to thank G-D for all things and Our G-D never changes it we who do the changing. And how have we evolved from stones and sticks to miss els and bombs.

Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Sellek 2nd
Canada

July 23, 2010

"---in the days of the Big Computer...": very very charming, don't know why...

Anonymous
Vienna, at