SOMEthing to THINK ABOUT

on computers

Being a “computer” used to be a honorabele profession. A computer was a human being, with many women among them, were professional calculators. They got their work from the military (ballistics), architects, the navy (mapping) and the government (city-planning).

The second World War saw a dramatic development of electronic calculations and the first computers, who were used to descript messages from the enemy. Shortly after the end of WW2 “human computers” disappeared, to be replaced by a machine.