Computers pg 1-87 Analysis

Out of all the books that we have to read this semester, "Computers: The Life Story of a Technology" is probably the only one I was not excited or remotely interested to read.  That being said, I found my assumption to be correct as the book is basically fact after invention after fact after materials used to make technological advances that I can't understand after fact.  Although it wasn't the smoothest read, I did find much of the information to be interesting and helpful in having a better understanding of how far technology has come since it's beginnings.  For one thing, I never knew that computers were originally created specifically to solve math problems (even though the name makes obvious sense of this).  Honestly, computers were so far along by the time I was born, I always just assumed that the result was the initial intention.  Once I learned how many different machines and attempts were made to basically make a HUGE graphing calculator, it blew my mind.  To know that we can now videochat with complete strangers anywhere in the world that have the internet, actually see what they are doing and have a real audible conversation with them made me wonder if these programmers ever thought that their hard work would eventually evolve into something so much more than what they were doing.  The chapter on the Cold War was interesting, learning about how big of a role computers actually played/still do play in many countries' protection/armed forces/aviation.