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The Machine That Changed the World

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The Machine That Changed the World, produced by Jon Palfreman, was released in 1992 and is available only in the VHS Format. It is the longest and the most complete documentary about the history of computing. This documentary gives a brief view of the computing industry before the widespread use of the web and includes archival footage and interviews with key players of the computing industry. It is also available in the form of a book written by Jon Palfreman. This documentary is divided into a series of 5 parts:

Part 1: Great Brains: In the first part we see a succinct introduction to the series, and highlighting the versatility of computers leading to their high influence on our lives. It is then followed by the history of computing, beginning with the original definition of “computers”, that were human beings like William Shanks that calculated numbers by hand and ending by concluding how Charles Babbage was led to develop his difference engine, the first mechanical computer, after being frustrated with inaccuracy caused by humans.

Part 2: Inventing the Future: The story of ENIAC’s creators is picked up in the second part as they begin their journey of building the first commercial computer company in 1950, and ends with the moon landing in 1969 and the beginning of the Silicon Valley. The documentary gives detailed information on how after the war ended, ENIAC’s creators founded the first commercial computer company, the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in 1946.

Part 3: The Paperback Computer: The third episode of covers the advancement of the personal computer and the modern graphical user interface which made computing easy to use for everyone. Highlights of this part include interviews with Apple’s Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, drawing with a computer in 1963, great footage from Xerox PARC, apart from some 1992-era predictions of the future from Apple and others.

Part 4: The Thinking Machine: The history of artificial intelligence and the challenges that come from trying to instruct computers to think and learn like us is charted in the fourth part.

Part 5: The World at Your Fingertips: The fifth and final part of The Machine That Changed the World focuses on global information networks including the Internet, and the communication benefits and privacy risks they threaten us with.

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  1. 01Gens says:

    So naive people out there…

  2. 33rdPatriot says:

    so relevant: videos by Dr. Magda Havas, bio electro mag effects – her latest video is incredibly shocking – stetzerizer HF power line filter dramatically reduces asthma, multiple sclerosis, adhd, bdiabetes, etc, etc – check out her stuff. See also videos by Dr. Carley, who is very plainspoken and errs on the side of conservatism. Good stuff, peace all, and wake up your slumbering neighbs before we’re all fried.

  3. I really cant believe that these scientist that are entrusted with this type of project cant even agree on anything? we know that their is a whole in our atmosphere and they caused it playing God! Nice one USA

  4. It isnt made to be a Weapon but they use it as the most powerfull weapon ever made.

  5. MCBaritone says:

    not a weapon… lol!

  6. Shaun Clark says:

    Well if the world does end I better go out clubbing the day before and have a few drinks with my friends and just sleep the day the world ends :-)

  7. I HAVE AN IDEA: what if we have to think about electricity as if it was stable in position,as in not lightning stricke but imagine a strike that stops mid air. It would generate power and be containable. cats would hate it. Butt its a way of thinking that isnt about directing power

  8. HAARP consists of an observatory and an adjacent 28-acre field with 180 high frequency antennas,each 72 feet tall,with a max transmission power of 3600 kilowatts,about 75 times the power of a commercial radio station,but only a tiny fraction of the strength of the natural solar radiation striking the same part of the ionosphere at which HAARP is aimed.Although the observatory operates continuously,the HF antenna array is activated only rarely for specific experiments, average about once a month

  9. 51 minutes of paranoia and ignorance. sorry.

  10. yup – you hear correct – it is him :)

  11. The world powers are preparing for a global coup using a fake alien invasion as cover. This is happening NOW! There will be an event at the London Olympics that kicks it off. Search: “UFO sightings 2012″ “Illuminati London Olympics” “New World Order UFOs” “Chemtrails” “HAARP strange noises”

  12. kirkass10 says:

    you are not like they because you dont have any power in society , as soon as it gives you some power over the masses you will be at media term like them , and if you think i am wrong then you dont know anything about yourself .You want to stop all this and other things that kills people ?Its simple , dont put money in bank , dont pay taxes to the governments so they dont have money for this kind of weapons .It is simple and functional .

  13. MadRazzex says:

    Funny how the HAARP people seem much dumber than the opposers. Correction: ARE dumber.1) It means energy, literally, you dumbass, like electricity.2) we’re 60% water, not 90%, Jezus Christ O_O3) Yeah, keep laughing, guy in grey. You don’t make technology that could destroy Earth and everything on it JUST for some paranoid government’s warfare. “to find hidden weapons” Oh for God’s sake! Why wage war in the first place? We live on the same planet, you idiots!!

  14. MadRazzex says:

    OMG what the hell are they doing!! Then again it’s SO typical. Humans are always like: “Let’s put some creatures in a box and throw some stuff in, take some stuff out, let’s see what happens”, except WE’RE the ones in the box!!!

  15. I grew up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula(Escanaba) and as a kid remember a controversial Navy program alternately known as sanguine,seafarer and ELF It was the subject of many articles in area newspapers,criticism was wide spread because we realized that it would come in over budget and be obsolete before completion also it would be a disaster environmentally(here it’s not the environmentalists its the sportsmen who still pray to the forest gods-and are armed).Is this HAARP’s origin?

  16. American governments……….Jesus Christ, you play around with our backyard, our beautiful earth, like we can just fix it or get another one.History will show, the USA as the most destructive reign of all time, including the Roman Empire.We, the people of this beautiful planet are constantly subjected to your reckless decisions.May all of you rot in hell….

  17. 074August says:

    If any of you have ever worked in Washington, DC, you know the DC mantra is : “It’s good enough for the government.” That is the feeling in Washington, whether it is good or bad, it’s good enought for the government, which means that don’t give a flying f***.

  18. 074August says:

    Pathetic. The only enemies of the U.S. were created by the CIA. U.S. wants world domination to steal souls for Lucifer.Morons create terrorists to scare people. The U.S. govt is so corrupt followers of lucifer, occultists, masons, Kabbalists-zionists, witches. They are the enemy within. They are the domestic enemies. Let’s shut these powerful witches/occultists down. Step outside the democratid republian disease of neopagans.

  19. sjsrana says:

    Any technology no-matter how-safe can be rendered unsafe in the hands of GREED!The DECODING frequency and its effects is certainly the epitome of scientific development.Question is how self-less/greed-less are we as individual and community/governments/world?I hope everyone has answer to above question, so how SAFE are you now?However there is something in the hands of individual beings(god/nature given) that can alter above, hope you know it!

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