All About Bill Gates A Computer Mastermind

- How life will change Daily Life Learning Where person meets machine Audio, Video Talking to your computer - Future? Conclusion: Solutions Is a life without computers still possible Own opinion -Quotation- Sources: The New York Times Bestseller: Bill Gates- The Road Ahead (ISBN 0-14-026040-4) Michael Dertouzos: What will be. How the new world of information will change our lives.

(ISBN 0-06-251540-3) Bill Gates Net Worth Page (Internet) General statements & information about computers A computer is an electronic device which processes data at an extremely high rate of speed. It can be fed with names, addresses, book titles, lists of merchandise, personal data, weather information, figures or mathematical problems. It then turns the data to binary bits of information and merely stores them, or the user can have it alphabetize the names or book titles, solve problems or make weather forecasts. The most modern computer can process millions of bits of data or solve complicated problems within seconds.

Businessmen use computers for accounting and bookkeeping, for keeping track of sales and the amount of stock in the warehouse, for string customers names as well as for figuring out employees wages and printing their paycheques. Banks could hardly do without computers nowadays to record customers deposits and withdrawals. Engineers use computers to design buildings, bridges, dams and motor vehicles as well as to keep spaceships and satellites on course. Computers are used at all levels of government for taxation purposes, administrative tasks, controlling traffic, checking air pollution and carrying out population studies.

In industry computers control as well as check machines and robots that make products, turning the machines on or off and adjusting their operations when necessary. Computers are used to set type for newspapers, magazines and books; they help farmers improve their crop yield; they aid doctors by analyzing information from diagnostic instruments or lab tests.

To put it into a nutshell, the applications of computers are veritably unlimited.

Because of the widespread use of computers, the computer industry has become a leading business not only in the USA and Japan but world-wide. It consists of thousands of companies all over the globe which manufacture, sell and/or lease computer equipment. Moreover, it also includes innumerable firms, both large and small, which provide users with hardware, software as well as with consulting and repair services.

HARDWARE As I mentioned before a computer is a machine which can receive, store, handle and send out information. It automatically inputs and processes data and outputs the results. If information is to be processed, it often has to be coded before the computer can accept it. Modern computers are digital, which means that all information must be converted into binary form. So the only practical ...