Computers Not the greatest invention of the 20 th century

“Computers: Not the Greatest Discovery of the Twentieth Century” Nothing epitomizes modern life better than the computer. For better or worse, computers have infiltrated every aspect of our society. Today, computers do much more than simply compute. Supermarket scanners calculate our grocery bill while keeping store inventory, computerized telephone switching centers play traffic cop to millions of calls and keep lines of communication untangled, and automatic teller machines let us conduct banking transactions from virtually …

…developed at all. As computers continue to develop with a decrease in their size and an increase in their speed, these developments will undoubtedly overshadow the efforts of those earlier individuals who laid the groundwork of computer technology. But as history has taught us, it is those few individuals at the forefront of their technologies that have made it possible for man to advance to point that we are now. And it will only continue.