COMPUTING: THE FUTURE TODAY

In recent decades many aspects of our lives have undergone major transformations and, no doubt, computers and modern computer technology play a decisive role in these transformations.

Just over 40 years, a trip to the moon, teleconferences, phone dials between two continents, cash withdrawals outside banking hours, sophisticated clinical and robots that build other machines were the most optimistic case, fiction themes scientific, possible only in a still distant future. Today, thanks to the development of computers and information technology, this futuristic fiction has become everyday reality.

If we consider an ordinary man in a big city, we realize, watching your day-to-day, how many contacts he has with the computer. When withdrawing cash at an ATM, to use the phone and when he reads her daily newspaper, modern man is making use of information technology. However, among the various aspects through which this type of technology is manifested, is undeniably the microcomputer one that most reveals the presence of information technology in today's world. Its popularity has been responsible for a revolution in our habits and our social organization.

The computer that makes Information Auto (INFORmação autoMÁTICA) should not intimidate and deceive so little, she and computers were created to solve problems and help people.

Today, we can see the technological advances in areas such as: medicine, telecommunications, transport, education etc. Undoubtedly, this technology that has accompanied us and will continue increasingly in the coming years, will allow further progress will be achieved in increasingly shorter periods, further changing our habits and social organization, transforming the FUTURE in THIS. To better understand this transformation, it is necessary to know the process by which the computer was developed, and the trajectory of the computer, until the current computer.