The term “computer,” originally defined as a person who solved equations, has evolved through time along with each innovation to reflect the current understanding of what a computer is and what it can do. A “computer” would convey very different concepts over different decades due to the availability, cost, size, and usage of computers for different tasks.
Write a multi-paragraph essay that examines what the term “computer” would represent to a person in the early 1950s and the 1980s, and why that would be the case. Then, put the evolution of computers in context by comparing the understandings of people from those decades to those our current understanding of a “computer.”
