Social Necessity for Computers

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• 1800s Charles Babbage's work wasn't seen as anything beyond a curiosity because there wasn't yet a need for his technology
• in the 30s and 40s Alan Turing and Claud Shanon work on creating the needed theoretical work to create a general purpose computer
  • but the social need is still not there for anything but specialized computers
• during the cold war balistics required too much calculation to do by hand (by women) anymore
  • this was the social necessity for the general purpose computer
  • like talked about in Connections Ep 10 Yesterday, Tomorrow, and You warfare causes change
  • this caused the creation of the Mauchly & ENIAC

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