Computers pgs 85-149

In Swedin and Farro's novel computers, they were able to get to a certain level of technology through the advancement of electronical devices like the fist desktop computer kit. The various advances with desktop technology spawn familiar names like microsoft, apple and finally the ibm pc. The pioneers of these particular microcomputers had a incredible vision. I find it particularly interesting the way the people involved in the inventiona nd progression of computers thought it was necessary to not only have specific uses for the device but knowing that this one device would alter people would think. On pg 98 they state,  :Englebart wanted to do more than automate previous tasks liek typing or clerical work; he wanted to use the computer to fundamentally alter the way people think. Even if i think of the way things were created and there names, the usage of the "mother board" having control over the rest of the computer is a concept in itself. In some ways the way the discussion of games and their big impact in the 1980's shows the extensive power the likings of technology can have over not only young people who are vunerable but also adults. As a child i distinctly remember recieving my first nintendo and nothing was like and nothing is like it til this day. I can still remeber the songs, the characters and that nothing was as important to me wheni got home from school except super mario. Technology and computers made it so not one person was above the influence. Even til this day I question why my grandma has a facebook or even why my little brother knows to look up things on google because he's sure to find it. I begin to ask myself, what ever happened to books, and whens the last time I even picked up an encyclopedia. The book discusses the most simple things that we use daily but don't reference as technology because it has become the norm. The telephone, the internet and the worls wide web are all things that are used ona daily basis but is not called a luxury becasue it has become the norm in so many ways.