Computers: The Harbingers of a Second Industrial Revolution (1816 words, 6 pages)
When the first electronic computers emerged from university and militarylaboratories in the late 1940s and early 1950s, visionaries proclaimed them theharbingers of a second industrial revolution that would transform business,government and industry. But few laymen, even if they were aware of themachines, could see the connection. Experts too, were sceptical. ...
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