ENG 2575 – Chapter5

In this chapter author talks about Alan Turing and the machine that he built in the beginning of the 20th century, which was meant to be the modern day computer. The machine was limited by information, speed and time. Today this machine is what we call a computer, and through computer, the internet was born. Author also implies that in today’s world we take internet for granted, it is a tool with unlimited resources that can be used by anyone on the planet at any time. He also talks about other various technologies that have evolved over time, including videos, photographs and music, Alan Turing could not have anticipated that this universal machine just a few decades later would become a universal medium and that the price of a typical computing task would have “dropped by 99.9 percent since the 1960s”

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