Invention of the computer has changed our understanding of cultures around the world?
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Religion is not the name of closed wall it is more to do with "openness" but people due to lack of knowledge and interaction (due to Urbanisation) had closed themselves to new ideas...new thoughts ....even their own religion...but some how computer has become a fashion...later necessity....and thru this the "Sharing" has brought in a more meaning for "Religion".(Especially for the Urbans) \n\nWithout comp howelse can I expect to a question from U
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Babbage's machine was really a difference engine.\nThe fist electronic computer was build in Britain by the Post Office Research Branch in 1943.
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Beyonce....a very good question in context to present scenario where globalisation and scientific revolution seems to have overtaken human emotions.Homo sapiens seems to have forgotten their roots and it's important that man should realise that world is beyond SCIENCE.For all this to happen in reality one must start from the grass root level,i.e from the famil.The moral values and the elements of culture in the form of\n1.Learning to read and write the original script\n2.Books and novels exploring the history and the beaut of the culture\n3.spiritual inclination etc.\nIf these small things are incorporated then the world may become a better place to live in
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1) The Telephone \nThe telephone is an instrument that converts voice and sound signals into electrical impulses for transmission by wire to a different location, where another telephone receives the electrical impulses and turns them back into recognizable sounds. In 1875, Alexander Graham Bell built the first telephone that transmitted electrically the human voice.\n2) The History of Computers\nThere are many major milestones in the history of computers, starting with 1936, when Konrad Zuse built the first freely programmable computer.\n3) Television \nIn 1884, Paul Nipkow sent images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology with 18 lines of resolution. Television then evolved along two paths, mechanical based on Nipkow's rotating disks, and electronic based on the cathode ray tube. American Charles Jenkins and Scotsman John Baird followed the mechanical model while Philo Farnsworth, working independently in San Francisco, and Russian émigré Vladimir Zworkin, working for Westinghouse and later RCA, advanced the electronic model.\n4) The Automobile\nIn 1769, the very first self-propelled road vehicle was invented by French mechanic, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. However, it was a steam-powered model. In 1885, Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler took the internal combustion engine a step further and patented what is generally recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine and later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.\n5) The Cotton Gin \nEli Whitney patented the cotton gin on March 14, 1794. The cotton gin is a machine that separates seeds, hulls and other unwanted materials from cotton after it has been picked.\n6) The Camera\nIn 1814, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first photographic image with a camera obscura, however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre is considered the inventor of the first practical process of photography in 1837.\n7) The Steam Engine\nThomas Savery was an English military engineer and inventor who in 1698, patented the first crude steam engine. Thomas Newcomen invented the atmospheric steam engine in 1712. James Watt improved Newcomen's design and invented what is considered the first modern steam engine in 1765.\n8) The Sewing Machine\nThe first functional sewing machine was invented by the French tailor, Barthelemy Thimonnier, in 1830. In 1834, Walter Hunt built America's first (somewhat) successful sewing machine. Elias Howe patented the first lockstitch sewing machine in 1846. Isaac Singer invented the up-and-down motion mechanism. In 1857, James Gibbs patented the first chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine. Helen Augusta Blanchard patented the first zig-zag stitch machine in 1873.\n9) The Light Bulb\nContrary to popular belief, Thomas Alva Edison didn't "invent" the light bulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year-old idea. In 1809, Humphry Davy, an English chemist, invented the first electric light. In 1878, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, an English physicist, was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb (13.5 hours) with a carbon fiber filament. In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented a carbon filament that burned for forty hours.\n10) Penicillin \nPenicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. Andrew Moyer patented the first method of industrial production of penicillin in 1948.
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There is a book called "The Twilight of American Culture" which talks about technology causing people to lose sense of national identity and kind of meld into a one world culture.\n\nIt's a pretty interesting read. The author is Morris Berman.
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Both.\nThe World as a Village \n  \nBefore we ask "what is technology doing to us," we must first ask "who has \naccess to technology at all?" \n\nIf we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of 100 people, with \nall existing ratios remaining the same, it would look like this: there would \nbe 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and \nSouth), and 8 Africans. \n\n   * 70 would be unable to read. \n   * 50 would suffer from malnutrition \n   * One would be near death; one near birth. \n   * Only one would have a college education \n   * No one would own a computer. \n   * 51 would be female, 49 would be male. \n   * 70 would be non-white; 30 white. \n   * 70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian. \n   * One half of the world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people, \n     and all 6 would be citizens of the United States. \n   * 80 would live in substandard housing. \n\nIf the digital revolution really is having an impact on the psychological \nmakeup of the people that it affects, then we must remember that it only \naffects an infinite small fraction of the world's human beings.
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Our technology and communications is changing at a rapid rate.\n\nThink about the fact that when I was 3 years old, we had a black and white TV, a rotary dial telephone, a washing machine, an oven and a refrigerator.  We had a car and a truck.  I grew up on a farm.\n\nMy grandparents did not have TV, they had radio.  They had no cars.  \n\nMy first grade teacher graduated college - called normal school - in 1919.  Her father made saddles for a living.  When she started teaching, there were only a few cars on the road.\n\nOur society is changing because we are changing.  How many people do you know who make their living on a farm?\n\nIn 1996 how many people had personal computers?  How many people do not have them now?  Ten years ago, a computer was not a necessity in a home.  We haven't even touched on TV, satellites, and all of the choices available in how we use them.
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well technology  didnt just happen over 100 years. We had a lil help. We went from having hardly crap and now computers,cell phones, and that damn tv. making people lazier then hell. right now there working on developing a chip that they plant into ur brain thats somthing like the internet. Where u can chat wit other people just by thinkin about it and even listening to music (also makes it easier for the government to keep track of everybody). thats going to make people fatter then hell. Everybody will just stay at home and do nothing all day long. And a benefit of all this technology is that we hardly have to lift a finger anymore.
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I think the most revolutionary invention of the 20th century has (go ahead and laugh) the perfection of the bidding rules for the card game "contract bridge" in the 1930's, because it represents a NEW FORM OF LOGIC which we will see in chaos theory and advancede mathematics over the next 50 years or so.\n\nWhat changed our fculture the most?  Physically, the automobile.  Artistically and intellectually, television.\n\nFor the 21st century, I think a form of artificial intelligence will emerge before the end of the century as the most revolutionary invention.  I think the end of America as the world's superpower will change our culture the most.\n\nIn the 20th century, I think the importation of German philosophy into our arts and culture following 1945 detracted more than any other thing.  But the modern focus-group, polled and surveyed political manipulation in elections and politics is a close second place.\n\nI think the major detraction from our culture in the 21st century hasn't even started yet.  I can't guess what it will be.
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weird al yankovic may have changed things for the nerds!! Nerds rule the world. Computers and electronics are taking over and its the nerds that are making the stuff and fixing it etc...
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well if you meant old days before the invention of tv ,airplanes ,motorized ships .you will have a different ansrwers. in the past cultures were isolated far from each others until trades and needs for food and other vital needs start to move populations to farther places where these communities  met other communities and not only goods and material things are traded knowledges of new ideas ,thoughts and in some cases ,wars between tribes, lead the winners to gain cultural ideas ,they i mean humain immigration through hunger or commerce or drought lead the humain communities to intersect and social religious ,economical thinking ,languages had to meet and today we are dissolved almost in a huge village called planet earth .
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The impact is generally, good. It has narrowed the gap between countries and cultures. It also provides unlimited knowledge at your fingertips. It has freed up the mind from useless clutter, because now the computer can store it instead of us.
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Computers are technology and affect most peoples lives.\nWhether or not they improve or degrade our lives is purely down to whether you are an optimist or pessimist. Personally I'm an optimist!
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i think this shows how advanced people have become due to technology...
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We wake up (usually by an alarm clock), we get ready for work, school etc (usually listening to the radio or watching TV), we go to work or school (usually by car, tube, train or bus) while listening to our ipods, chatting on our cellphones or watching our ipod TV's. At work we use computers and telephones. At lunch time, draw some money (from a cash point) and buy our lunch (at the till point), then we may do a spot of lunchtime shopping (on our credit cards), then we go back to work and send silly emails around the office or chat to cyber friends on msn or yahoo messenger. We travel back home and use our cells on the way to send texts, talk or listen to the radio. We prepare dinner (sometimes in a microwave) and watch TV or listen our stereo. We play computer games and watch movies, chat on the phone and on the Internet, and as it gets darker we use electricity to be able to see, we have a shower and get ready for bed.\n\nTechnology has made us complacent, lazy and shifted our focus on the important aspects of life. Because our every need is catered for in some way by technology, we get greedy and impatient for things that will further enhance our way of life. It has provided the most wonderful creations and things that we, at somepoint, would never have imagined, yet it has made us all vulnerable and open to the darker minds of our society and addicted to what we cant live without.\n\nTechnology has effected society by giving no boundery. It has created a people of instant touch-of-a-button satisfaction with more, more and more requested. If technology had not developed as fast as it had people would spend more time interacting in 'real-time' in person. Family and Community morals would be of more value as there wouldn't be such a variety of things to seclude and distance us.\n\nWhile technology can bring people closer and encourage people to spend time together, it seems that technology seperates generations. With each generation theres something new and cool that comes out that alienates the previous one. \nFor example \nRecord LPs - Cassette - CDs - MP3. \nVideo Tape - DVD. \nPen and paper - Typewriter - Computer - Laptop. \nWalkman - CDman - ipod. \n\nHowever, I love my phone, I love my computer and all the other things mentioned above! But its the fact that we rely so heavily on technology that makes us weak. Quite simply, with more technology comes more control of our society. And we are not the ones controlling it.
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India has had a tremendous influence on the whole world. I can give you three quick examples of things that are used everywhere in the world.  \n\nThe concept of zero.  Several Religions.  Martial Arts.
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The cell phone. It has changed the way we live