Their Computers Have Changed the Way We Work and Play
Read the introduction to the magazine article and answer the following questions:
Computers are everywhere. You can use a computer to write a letter, design a house, draw a picture or exchange messages with someone around the world. But it wasn't too long ago that computers could only work math problems. Those machines cost millions of dollars, and only a few huge companies had them. Now, more than a third of all U.S. families have a computer at home.
1 Do you have a computer at home ? If so, what is it?
2 How often do you use it?
3 What do you use your computer for more often?
4 Is your PC interfaced to the Internet?
5 Are you a ‘computer nerd’?
6 Do your parents like your being stuck to the computer for long hours?
7 Do you have any cyber buddies?
8 Do you know anything about the inventors of the first computers?
Computers have changed the way we live. The Information Age has jumped on Information Super-highway. Meet some of the men who made it possible.