by Irving Fang and Ann Norris
ISBN: 1-933-01179-3Once, only a government agency, a university, or a large company could afford one. Today, they are birthday presents. Many a five-year-old has computing capacity at the tips of jelly-coated fingers that scientists did not dream of.
Computers is the tenth of the 11-volume series, The Story of Communication.The computer grew out of an age-old desire to keep records. We welcomed their ability to count, and later to communicate, to inform and to entertain.
One way or another the computer is becoming so common that we seldom stop to think that a computer is helping us. The fate of the computer may be to disappear into the background, to become as exciting as the kitchen toaste—to be everywhere. That may be the greatest advance of all.
