The History of Computing

Abstract

Diving back as early as the fourth-century BC, China had been using a prototype of abacus called counting boards. With regard to the current dominance of China as a major contributor to Science and Technology, it is obvious that computing has played a key role in this palmy rise. Nowadays, computing runs throughout the entire of our society, from the granular microscopic level of image processing applied in facial recognition to a bigger macro-standing such as port management automation. Computation has been driving all angles through the whole of our civilization since the apparition of the abacus. Computers have proven to be the best and the pillar of the most top inventions of mankind. They reflected the desire of humans to faster perform heavier and cumbersome computations. Later came the requisition for precision and accuracy of evaluations and as a consequence, computing bolstered up from mechanical and manual where they were engaged in printing manuscripts to digital and finally quantum computers which accommodate humanity in bringing to fruition teleportation and lighting data conveyance from earth to satellites in space. Here and now, computers have grown so powerful and versatile that they impersonate every single corner in our syndicates, hence people call up on I/O peripheral devices and media channels such as joysticks and wireless channels respectively to communicate with them and ease the communication exchange. In the chapter below, we shall sequentially recall how these events made history and shaped our future.