The future foretold in science fiction.

It is interesting that the developments we enjoy in the present world we live in came to life in science fiction movies and novels from the olden days of fiction. Jules Verne`s 1863 novel Paris in the Twentieth Century depicted a 1960`s world with fax machines, skyscrapers and even a form of the Internet. That is … Read more

The machines that sparked the computer age. From Enigma to Colossus.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/technology/of-codebreakers-and-mechanical-giants-56949.html [theepochtimes.com] The world war was fought not just with bullets and artillery, but also with computers, creating and cracking even more complex codes that were beyond the human mind`s capability to break. The German Enigma machine was the machine that created the most complex code of the war, and had 150,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible code combinations, but allied researchers undoubtedly … Read more