Thanks to the newest state of the art technology, personal computers have microprocessors built-in, which are bound to decode and execute written data processes. This groundbreaking microprocessor technology allows your personal computer to receive inputs from the user as a result of interactions with the mouse and keyboard devices. It also allows your computer to perform several tasks; for instance, it grants you the ability to resolve varied and complex mathematical calculations at the push of a button. In the office-side work, computers can be used to keep track of data about customers, products, demographics and other relevant business-related information by creating, managing and, storing spreadsheets throughout a wide variety of software.
In the education-side field, computers play an essential role in the modern educational system. Students find it easier to refer to the internet than searching for information in large books. To meet the challenges provided by present society, many universities in the education-side field had introduced an optional course in computers as the only way to bring computer awareness. While trying to “Integrate Technology with Education,” those universities who attempted to initiate this process faced different challenges, including the lack of specialists and professionals to frame the proper needed curriculum. As a society, we indeed lack Teacher Educators who are willing to integrate technology with education.
Not only are computers built for personal use with regular-level demands of written data process, they are also built to support high-level demands of written data process; these computers receive the term of “supercomputers”. The performance of supercomputers is measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOOPS) in lieu of million instructions per second (MIPS). Supercomputers make it possible for physicists to answer questions about the unseen universe. Invisible dark matter makes up about 25 percent of the universe, and dark energy makes up more than 70 percent, but physicists know little about either. Using powerful supercomputers like IBM's Roadrunner at Los Alamos National Laboratory, researchers can run models that require upward of a thousand trillion floating-point operations per second, allowing then the most realistic models of these cosmic mysteries.
Since the first creation of the personal computer, the world has developed in unforeseen ways. The society in which we live in has been so profoundly affected by computers that historians refer to the present time as the information age. With the increasing demand for different specialties, new adjustments are being made to computers, so they can serve different purposes as they emerge. However, if computers are to benefit from future advances in technology, then there are major challenges ahead, involving understanding how to build reliable systems on increasingly unreliable technology. Nowadays, whether you opt to take the subway, to get a new job, to go to college, or just by starting your car’s engine, one thing is certain: computers are already a reality among us.
