快猫短视频

THE computer age dawned before this magazine launched, but 快猫短视频 has been around for long enough to capture the machines鈥� ever-accelerating evolution and their infiltration of our daily lives.

Back in 1963 they were big and slow, but already replacing humans at mundane tasks. We reported that February that British Railways was using a Ferranti Pegasus 2 to compile its Eastern Region timetable, and that the Eastern Region had to rearrange its headquarters to fit the beast in. We recognised the start of an inexorable process of speeding up tasks while cutting the need for people to do them, a challenge the world is still grappling with. In our proclaimed the advent of 鈥渒ing computer鈥�, lamenting how machines were running things as diverse as US Navy missile systems, coal-mining strategy and government policy.

By 1975, having entrenched themselves in big national enterprises, computers were starting to take control of individual citizens鈥� business. Our reported that the UK government was halfway through computerising 20 million drivers鈥� records, and it did not escape us that the machines would make it ever harder to evade the authorities鈥� gaze. 鈥淭he most astonishing thing about the driver licensing operation,鈥� we noted, 鈥渋s that a group of civil servants was able to evolve a quasi-national identifier without consultation with representatives of the public.鈥� The computers still needed a large building to accommodate them, however, not to mention almost 7900 workers to do what the machines still could not.

Thirty years on and the world had changed again, with a headline in our 5 March 2005 issue proclaiming that 鈥淎 cellphone is the only gadget you need鈥�. It could do everything: 鈥済ames machine, emailer, camera, or news browser鈥�. That was prescient. Whether pocket computers have led to more/fewer or better/worse jobs for humans, however, is open to argument.