About Computers
There is a myth that there is something magical about computers & those who run them. The legend has got about that computers are 'electronic brains' and the programmers are some sort of supermen. The facts are that computers are very stupid and the people who program are normal human beings. Anyone who can count from 0 to 7 on his or her fingers and make eight can learn to be a programmer. The business is not difficult, just tricky.
It is very misleading to imagine that computers can 'think' like people. They cannot. They have no more a mind than a lawn-mover. However, they make it possible for people to 'bottle' a thought. You work out how to do a particular job or problem, write a programme & the computer will apply your thinking as long or as often as you like. In this sense computers are half alive because they perpetuate the thinking of their creators.
It is very misleading to imagine that computers can 'think' like people. They cannot. They have no more a mind than a lawn-mover. However, they make it possible for people to 'bottle' a thought. You work out how to do a particular job or problem, write a programme & the computer will apply your thinking as long or as often as you like. In this sense computers are half alive because they perpetuate the thinking of their creators.
