The Invention of the Computer

It has taken many years, inventors, inventions, contributing, and hard work to achieve today's modern computer. Although there were many inventors who contributed to the making, the very first working computer was invented in 1936 in Germany by a man named Konrad Zuse. It was later reinvented in 1941, named Z3, which solved some of the issues that the original invention had and it was actually functional. The first model was named Z1 and it was the first program-controlled computer. It did not work very well, and broke down continuously. Also, because of its massive size (it was the size of a large room,) was hard to work and control. In 1945, Konrad Zuse brought to life another version called Plankalkuel, the first higher level programming language. In 1946, the first startup company was created by Zuse called The Zuse-Ingenieurburo Hopfurau. In 1950, he leased the Z4, (the world's first commercial computer,) and people quickly were interested. In the United States, around the same time, scientists were working to develop a computer of their own, and it also quickly grew popular. From the year 1936 until now, inventors are still working and will continue to work to improve and invent more "important" things to add onto the computer.

The invention of the computer has changed the ways of technology for the whole entire world. It has changed in ways both good and bad and creates many different kinds of issues. But, it also has numerous good things about it and is extremely important in today's society. It is more powerful than anyone realizes, and all of that power can lead to destruction, but also production. Some may argue that computers should not be allowed to evolve any more than they already have. Others argue that technology is essential in today's society and it should keep evolving and getting better. But, people have been able to live for thousands of years and seemed to be doing just fine without it. It is also the same for many other countries who have just been introduced to these new technologies. Even though the invention of the computer is supposed to be used for good things, there is such a wide variation of things you can look up on the Internet now. And those things, if used by the wrong kind of people, can be used to do harm to anyone or anything. An example of that would be online chatting sites. Predators go on those and are able to talk to kids, which can and have resulted in harm being done to the kids. Since computers have evolved so quickly overtime and continue to get smarter and smarter, imagine twenty years from now. Computers twenty years from now will probably be numerous times smarter than they are right now. And with that intelligence and more possibilities, brings more ways for harm to be done. There are of course positive assets of the computer. In today's society it is essential in our lives because almost everything we do now revolves around it. Businesses, schools, and households each have a computer because it is part of every one's daily lives. But how did it get to that point, where everyone relies on a computer for every little thing? Commercials and soliciting are probably the main cause. They tell you that you need to have something, but you can function quite well without it. And every person is capable of doing a lot of things that a computer does for you. But doing those things on your own takes time, and people are very impatient nowadays. So, computers are essential in today's and future societies. Even though there are many problems that can arise because of them, there are more good things than bad that come out of computers. 635