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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY. Group Members Rasheena Graham Verona Hinds Alliah Mills.

Computer. Computers and it’s uses has grown rapidly and widely throughout the world. They are used to deal with many tasks due to their various potential. It helps to resolve problems human may encounter in daily life. Therefore, the use of computers have a massive influence on our life. To understand the depth of computer influence in human life; have a look at development that happened in these areas : communication , education, utility facilities and health care. Within the last 3 decades, computer has been recognized as the most life changing and successful intervention solving problem in human life. Today, where business caters, there you find applying computer usage..

Evolution of Computer. Abacus (3000 BC). Tim Cranmer is credited for a robust calculating machine, the abacus. Cranmer was blind, and he built an abacus to help himself and others like him to calculate. Abacus is still in use today, particularly in Asia. Now, as then, it typically consists of a rectangular frame with thin parallel rods strung with beads..

From 1939 to 1944 Aiken, in collaboration with IBM, developed his first fully functional computer, known as the Harvard Mark I . The machine, like Babbage's, was huge: more than 50 feet (15 metres ) long, weighing five tons, and consisting of about 750,000 separate parts, it was mostly mechanical..

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HP entered the computer market with the HP 2116A in 1966 . It was designed to control HP's large product line of test and measurement equipment. By 1969, HP was marketing a timesharing computer system and continued to issue new products, including their HP-35 hand-held calculator and several computers in the 1970s..

Disadvantages of Laptop. Too much sitting. Short attention span and too much multitasking. Can limit learning and create a dependency. Potential of loss of privacy. Carpal tunnel and eye strain. Time sink and lots of distractions. Increases waste and impacts the environment. Can reduce jobs ..

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