How Have Computers Changed Our Lives?
A couple weeks ago I blogged about life in the Sixties and mentioned that computers were in existence, but housed in temperature controlled rooms and took up a great deal of space. This made me wonder how our lives have changed since computers have become commonplace.
I attended high school in the late 70’s and remember a small group of students were selected to take a “computer class” which turned out to be a programming class. I wasn’t one of them. In fact, I didn’t see another computer until my first office job in the early 80’s. The insurance company I worked for used computers to store information about a policy holder and generate whole life dividend charts based on a potential client’s age and gender. They were printed out on dot-matrix tractor feed printers (the kind with the holes and perforated edges).
