Chapter 6
Organizing Chaos
Prior to the development of modern computers, the word computing mostly implied numerical calculation. Today, computing encompasses all forms of electronic manipulation of objects: numbers, text, sound, music, photographs, movies, genes, etc., and even ideas! Computing can be used as an extension of your mind. It is in this form that a computer becomes an enormously powerful device. You might be wondering, how do computers manipulate ideas? Well, not quite in the sense you might have imagined. If you think about objects like numbers, text, sound, music, and even genes and how we are able to process them or do computing ...
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