The video from the 1950s describes computers as mechanical thinking machines. It predicts that with computers doing workers' jobs, people would only need to work 3 hours a week and could knock off at 11am. It foresees computers becoming household names once peripherals become smaller, and that housewives would use computers to store hundreds of recipes. Finally, it envisions personal computers of the future being powerful, mobile devices capable of sending files, creating graphics, and giving speeches.
The video from the 1950s describes computers as mechanical thinking machines. It predicts that with computers doing workers' jobs, people would only need to work 3 hours a week and could knock off at 11am. It foresees computers becoming household names once peripherals become smaller, and that housewives would use computers to store hundreds of recipes. Finally, it envisions personal computers of the future being powerful, mobile devices capable of sending files, creating graphics, and giving speeches.
The video from the 1950s describes computers as mechanical thinking machines. It predicts that with computers doing workers' jobs, people would only need to work 3 hours a week and could knock off at 11am. It foresees computers becoming household names once peripherals become smaller, and that housewives would use computers to store hundreds of recipes. Finally, it envisions personal computers of the future being powerful, mobile devices capable of sending files, creating graphics, and giving speeches.
choose the correct answers to the following questions.
1 How does the teacher describe the It's a mechanical thinking machine. computer?
40 2 How many hours a week do workers have to work?
3 When will they knock off if computers do their at 11 am work? 4 When will computers become a household When the peripherals are made smaller. name?
5 What will housewives use their computers Storing hundreds of recipes for?
6 What will a personal computer look
It w ill be pow erful and mobile.
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7 What won’t computers do in the future? Send files and messages to co-workers. Create graphics Give speeches at meetings. Balance cheque books Play golf Do the housework