Computation Is All Around Us, and You Can See It if You Try

In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career: I can’t hear the algebra, but I feel the machine. I felt the machine even before I touched a computer. In the 1970s I awaited the arrival of my first one, a Radio Shack TRS-80, imagining how it would function. I wrote some simple programs on paper and could feel the machine I didn’t yet have processing each step.

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