Synopsis

Mick H. joins us today to explore a ubiquitous presence in modern life: the computer. These devices permeate our world, residing in automobiles, calculators, and televisions – indeed, you are using one now. Humans feed computers information – images, words, numbers, sounds – and the machine transforms this data into electricity. This information is converted into a sequence of electrical pulses, a series of electrical signals that alternate between "on" and "off." Computers are engineered to dis