Nowadays most individuals and their grandmothers are using computers on a daily basis to access the Internet and even the so-called computer illiterate operate computers in devices that they have not yet realized contain them. We are all working with computers all the time whether we realize it or not.
Equipment at work, the car, the mobile telephone and the ATM all have computers built-in to make them more efficient or indeed to make them work at all. Everyone ought to attempt to take that small leap to learning how to use a computer with a keyboard, especially if they are under fifty.
Not just are we all working with computers, but we are all working with mainframes – the sort of computers that NASA applications for its calculations. Where?, you may wonder. Well, when you go to the self-service garage and punch in what you would like and how you are going to pay for it, the computer on the petrol pump checks its supplies to see whether it can supply that quantity
Then it tells Head Office that it has delivered that amount and that stock levels have to be decreased by that much; then it checks you credit card details with the banks’ mainframes and then you are free to have your card back and go on your way. And not before. If you do try to escape early, it will already have taken a snapshot of your face and almost certainly your car’s registration plate too.
Do you have a security tag to get into work? That will be an RFID (radio frequency ID) tag, which will be communicating with the firm’s mainframe computer to tell it that ‘employee xxx’ has turned up for work and it will probably keep details of where you are at every other moment of the day too.
Some people used to enjoy doing a little automobile maintenance once a week or once a month (OK, many did not too), but that is now a thing of the past. Before anyone knows what is wrong with a vehicle, they have to plug it in.
If you go to a main dealer, that knowledge will go into the company’s database to help it design a better car next time (or maybe they will use the data to make sure that it breaks down earlier next time – planned obsolescence).
The purpose here is that if you do not have an inkling of what computers can do or indeed are doing, you will be left behind, standing in disbelief in the past asking yourself what happened to your old life. The easiest way to find out what computers can do is to begin working with computers on a conscious level.
There is just one problem with this piece though and that is that because you are reading it on line, I am talking to someone who is already working with computers. Never mind, I tried.
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