What are computers?
Saturday, October 27, 2001 by Emily | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Tonight some computer friends and i were chatting and started philosophizing about what computers are. Just appliances? Doorways to other worlds? What? Since we're all here to make our computers work better or at very very least differently we must see them as something more than just tools to do a job. Any thoughts?
Jafo
Reply #3 Saturday, October 27, 2001 8:25 AM
Reply #3 Saturday, October 27, 2001 8:25 AM
Mine is a strange beige box that ceases to function at will [but not mine]....
craeonics
Reply #4 Saturday, October 27, 2001 8:54 AM
Reply #4 Saturday, October 27, 2001 8:54 AM
Just a big pile of NAND-switches. Actually, I tend to think of my screen as the computer, not the noisy box next/below it.
Firestorm
Reply #6 Saturday, October 27, 2001 4:53 PM
Reply #6 Saturday, October 27, 2001 4:53 PM
It's a machine, and sometimes it allows us to create wonderful things. I love the fact that I'm able to be in contact with people I might never have met otherwise. But at the end of the day, they're TOOLS, created by us, subservient to us. The day I call my computer an extension of myself is the day I give it away 
No offense intended towards Mobius.
No offense intended towards Mobius.
MobiusCo
Reply #7 Saturday, October 27, 2001 5:03 PM
Reply #7 Saturday, October 27, 2001 5:03 PM
none taken it just re-inforces my mental state or is it the lack of.....
HeyYou
Reply #8 Saturday, October 27, 2001 6:47 PM
Reply #8 Saturday, October 27, 2001 6:47 PM
its really just a big calculator.
and my computer science teacher from highschool called them "superfast idiots" or something to that effect. they can calculate things very fast, but they do only what you tell them to do, there is no guessing or questioning of what you tell it to do.
and my computer science teacher from highschool called them "superfast idiots" or something to that effect. they can calculate things very fast, but they do only what you tell them to do, there is no guessing or questioning of what you tell it to do.
Jim
Reply #10 Sunday, October 28, 2001 12:48 AM
Reply #10 Sunday, October 28, 2001 12:48 AM
It is the natural growth of man's creation and love of the written word-language, language that can now create images. Written Language being the only tool that has elevated man above all other animals.
Sorry, give blood today.
Sorry, give blood today.
Jim
Reply #11 Sunday, October 28, 2001 1:09 AM
Reply #11 Sunday, October 28, 2001 1:09 AM
Well think about it, what is the true difference between a man painting on a cave wall and drawing with a computer, nothing! And what is a program but yet another language man has created.
OK I'll stop.
OK I'll stop.
feline
Reply #12 Monday, October 29, 2001 12:23 PM
Reply #12 Monday, October 29, 2001 12:23 PM
they are warm and cuddly and friendly
they give shape and form to my existance, provide a bridge from one world to another, and as a bonus, the table leg (the table for the computer) stops my pile of chocolate bars from falling over all the time
they give shape and form to my existance, provide a bridge from one world to another, and as a bonus, the table leg (the table for the computer) stops my pile of chocolate bars from falling over all the time
MobiusCo
Reply #13 Monday, October 29, 2001 3:06 PM
Reply #13 Monday, October 29, 2001 3:06 PM
a transindental gateway to an alternate view of reality, where things are more distorted and warped the the view outside my window. Like a looking glass into the minds of all those that create data threads
Frogboy
Reply #14 Tuesday, October 30, 2001 7:28 PM
Reply #14 Tuesday, October 30, 2001 7:28 PM
For me, computers are a doorway to a wider world. The ultimate communications device, magazine, and interactive entertainment unit.
At home I have my laptop equipped with wireless ethernet so I can be on the internet from anywhere which is really handy.
At home I have my laptop equipped with wireless ethernet so I can be on the internet from anywhere which is really handy.
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Reply #1 Saturday, October 27, 2001 3:17 AM